"...'hot enough to boil a monkey's bum, Your Majesty,' I said..."
Gotta love Monty Python.
The last half of the drive last night from work was all sideways rain and 30mph+ wind. When I got home, I walked in the front door, and my wife and youngest were sitting in the living room in the dark. Power went out just a minute before I got home. I turned around and started to walk out the door, saying, "I'm going back to work!"
But anyway, after eating a supper of cold pasta salad, we played a boardgame to pass the time, then went outside to smoke a pipe; a MM Elf Cobbit to be specific. My youngest got his MM Patriot out - his only pipe - and we both smoked my random aromatics. Wife joined us too, and we sat outside until it got dark and we were tired (the rain had stopped earlier).
I say all that to get to this: it was definitely a unicorn smoke, and with unspecific tobacco! My son did well too. Last time we had a pipe together, I told him (again) how to pack his pipe, and he actually did it this time. He noted that it smoked cooler than ever before, and he really enjoyed it. Of course, as a 19 year old would, he said, "how come you never told me how to do this?" I remarked that I had, and that he didn't listen. He replied, "yeah, I probably didn't."
What promised to be a drab evening with no entertainment turned out to be very pleasant evening indeed.
