By New Year’s Day, everyone has made a number of New Year Resolution they swear they will keep all year. By January 2, they have ignored those resolutions. This year I made a resolution to not be like everyone else. I resolved to only make pipe smoking resolutions that I know I will or can keep. (Since this is 2018, …
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Hats (Part I): Are you covered…. Most people may not realize it, or think it’s something made up for Hollywood movies, but wearing hats used to be an everyday occurrence for men. Long before the popularity of ball caps, men used to wear Bowlers, Fedora’s, flat caps and cowboy hats as part of their daily clothing. Now it has become …
Pappy’s Rules for hats… The following rules have nothing to do with the etiquette of wearing hats that I mentioned in “Where have all the hats gone…” In fact, what follows are not rules per se, but more guidelines that I believe in. Rule 1. Everyone can wear a hat but every hat doesn’t “fit” every wearer or occasion. There …
It happens after Thanksgiving every year. Mrs. Pappy Claus and I start our annual Christmas gift shopping and people stop and look twice or thrice at me. One time, we were eating lunch and a nice lady stopped by our table and said, “My grandson saw him and said, “Look! Santa’s eating lunch but that’s not Mrs. Claus!” She also …
Newminster No. 23 Blackberry Brandy It’s cooler in Southeast Louisiana with temperatures dropping into the 40s and 50s at night and the leaves on the red maple in my front yard turned red and dropped to the ground. Even the oak trees in the neighborhood are doing the same. I have smelled the smoke from fire places and fire pits. …
