My grandfather on mom's side....i remember him smoking a pipe some. I was a little kid, but I remember when he did the women folks did not care for it as it was in the den, where everyone would gather after the evening meal. I now live in the house they moved to after that one from when I was the little kid, and after going through all their stuff, two things I was disappointed in not finding were:
1. My grandfathers twine ball. It was about an 7" diameter ball of twine, string, and small rope, wound into itself of pieces he saved or had found. He grew up in The Depression and told me stories of it when I was really young.
2. His pipe, and other related stuff, gear, cleaners, etc.
What I did find that was a surprise, was during a YUGE garage sale we had when my wife and I got married and bought the house from my mother. During this garage sale, there had been an old wooden ice cream maker that i remembered by grandfather using when I was really little, and it was in the box it came in, but all of the wooden slats had fallen apart. So I left in in the box and put a dollar on it. Well this woman, in the first big wave of "garagers" asked if we minded for her to look in the box to see if it was salvageable. "of course" . She then pulled out a bottle of Ancient Age whiskey and asked loudly "whose is this?
Granddad had a STASH in the shop. Good times and laughter at the garage sale.
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