She set forth to stalk the elusive mistletoe.<\/p>\n
Being somewhat athletic (the Tae-Kwon-Do background, and all of that), there was a time when she would have scampered up the tree and harvested the pretty parasitic plant.\u00a0 Today as a grandmother (yes, I\u2019m at an age when the younger women are grandmothers), she feels there is a standard of dignity to maintain. So, she brought a harvesting tool.<\/p>\n
To wit, her pet Remington 1100 Special Field LT-20 shotgun, stocked and otherwise customized to her specifications.\u00a0 A few blasts of Winchester 20 gauge AA Sporting Clays loads of #8 birdshot later, she returned carrying her prey in her free hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeace on Earth, good will toward men,\u201d I sighed quietly.<\/p>\n
It is Christmas tradition to place mistletoe atop a doorway during Christmas season.<\/p>\n
It is customary for guys and gals who meet at that spot to kiss under the mistletoe.<\/p>\n
Am I going to kiss this pretty girl when we encounter each other beneath that shotgun-harvested greenery?<\/p>\n
That is entirely<\/em> up to her.<\/p>\n After all\u2026 she\u2019s<\/em> the one with the shotgun\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Holiday Season is coming quickly upon us. Let me step away from the grim current events that have been the focus of this blog lately, and try to start cultivating a little holiday spirit.\u00a0 Thanksgiving, Christmas, and all of that. On the range this past weekend, the Significant Other spotted some mistletoe in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Mistletoe\"](\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Mistletoe.jpg\" "\\"Mistletoe\\"")
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