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In the opening scenes of the iconic movie, The Princess Bride, Princess Buttercup loved to order her farm-boy Wesley around. It didn’t matter if the request was big or small reasonable or unreasonable, he always responded saying “As you wish,” and then went and did it. Then one day she realized that when he said…
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In this video I unbox both smooth and sandblasted finishes of the Chacom Bent Dublin made exclusively for Twins Pipe Club. Erik Stokkebye worked with Chacom to make this happen. A total of 50 pipes were made, 19 smooth and 31 sandblast. Like anything else, it took longer than any of us thought, but it…
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In this video I review Cornell & Diehl’s King Cake, one of the blends from their Cellar Series. King Cake is an aromatic blend presented as a crumble cake meant to evoke the spirit of the Mardi Gras cake of the same name that is traditionally served during the Christian church season of Epiphany, honoring…
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In Genesis 15, God let Abram witness Him entering into a covenant on Abram’s behalf. The covenant was with Abram in the sense that it was for Abram, but it did not depend on Abram. His part in this covenant was not to take an oath, but to be the legal witness of God’s oath…
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One of the things Gawith Hoggarth is famous for is their twist or rope tobaccos. Among the most popular are Brown Irish X and its cooked and pressed cousin, Black Irish X. They also make twists with different toppings, in this case, rum. Does the rum add something to the twist, or does it get…
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“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law” (Galatians 5:22-23, NIV). My wife, Mandi, has a green thumb. A big green thumb, if I am honest. And it will not be denied! She often talks about the garden as…
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In this video, I open a tin of G.L. Pease Windjammer to review and take the opportunity to show how I prefer to pack a flake cut tobacco in my pipe.
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This past week, I became the interim pastor at West Newbury Congregational Church in West Newbury, MA. Yeah, I am still at Twins….this is a part-time call. But as I have said before, the “Pastor” in “Pastor Padron” is legit. This is my message from Sunday, June 22, 2025. My text was Luke 5:17-26, where…
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7-20-4 Briary Blends Little Gold Dust is one of five blends resulting from a collaboration between Jeremy Reeves from Cornell & Diehl and myself for Kurt Kendall, the owner of Twins Smoke Shop and 7-20-4 Cigars. Now available everywhere through twinssmokeshop.com, I want to share these blends with you, starting with this Virginia/Dark Fired Kentucky…
Not Just Blowing Smoke with Pastor Padron 