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Sounds like you need a wind screen for the top of your bowl. I've never tried one but the thought is sound enough.

cram a towel under the door to your room and smoke inside.

are never satisfied. Sitting outside watching the Med & he's complaining that his pipe is burning down too quick! Good Lord man, go light another. You want to smoke inside?

not so much just that my pipe is burning down too fast...that wouldn't bother me so much...it is just that the smoke becomes violently hot with it burning so fast...I might go in search of a windscreen though...the pipes I have here are cheap...so it wouldn't matter too much to me if they got a bit scratched up...so we'll see what I can come up with...

but it is a hard life having to go to morning classes "au bord de la mer Méditerranée"...but somebody's got to hang out in the sun a bit...but don't get too worried about me having such a hard life...I am headed back to the oasis of San Francisco at the end of the week...where I get to work for the rest of the summer...though...even that will be fun, I expect...

Cheers,

Josh

yea, no wind there. :-)

nope...never...and it stays right around 80 and sunny all summer...

maybe this wind cap would be a good investment...

Cheers,

Josh

I would second the wind cap. The other bad thing about smoking in windy conditions is the prevalence of ashes blowing out of the pipe and directly into you waiting eyes. If you are one to hold a pipe while smoking it I suppose a pair of fingers over the bowl would probably suffice. But for the dangler, the wind cap provides a good, hands free alternative. I often use one when fishing in the gulf late at night, it works like a champ. (but they are designed more for function than asthetic appeal)

yeah...that is the deal..I actually do hold my pipe rather than clench...I have found that two udesireable things happen when I clench...first I end up getting spit in my pipe...and my jaw gets sore...not worth the hassle for me...since I only smoke one or two bowls a day while relaxing on a chair or chaise lounge or whatever...but I have found it a bit hot to keep my fingers over the bowl...well at least at the beginning of the bowl...when the real problem exists...

anyway...a wind cap it is...

Cheers,

Josh

If I want to smoke overlooking the Mediterraean I have to drive or take a bus to Tel Aviv ;)

I have left my little haven next to the med...and now it is time to get back to the real world...back to work in San Francisco for the summer...and then back to Uni in the fall...so if you happen to make it to tel aviv...say hi to the med for me...hahaha...

Cheers,

Josh

I love setting up the telescope and viewing our surrounding Universe. It works well with contemplative pipe smoking. In Summer, the mosquitos can be bad! Smoking my pipe takes care of the mosquitos! No conflict of interest there, unlike flying my airplane and smoking. Can't do that one!!!

That reminded me of more than one evening of miniature golf in a not-to-be-named tropical "paradise" wherein I saved myself from mosquitos by smoking Royal Jamaican Churchills with maduro wrappers. Everyone else was slapping themselves silly and squirming like jumping beans while I suavely strolled along the course without a care in the world.

Captain Bob, you're the captain, aren't you? Who's going to tell you not to smoke in your own airplane? It's treason! Throw them out the door at 30,000...

I would throw them out at 30,000 feet except for the damn decompression thing!

You mean the decompression would put your pipe out? That's worse than Josh's problem on the Med. Maybe a wind cap? Bet the view's pretty good as well, hey?

You're getting caught up in the details! Be the King! Rule. Kick the bastids out says I! So you get sucked out of the door too ... you still get the last laugh!

Ok, no parachute, though! And, certainly not if I have my new Canadian in my jacket pocket... No Way!