[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: "Pick your own mistletoe" question.

[Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force)]

[zanooda]:
| I didn't know that :-). I can see from Steve's post that this 
| is common to the US as well, but I've never even heard of it 
| :-).

[Lee]:
No?  Well it's sure common here in NJ.  Now that Autumn is approaching, the
Apple farms are going to be wide open for people to come and pick their own
apples and the farm charges for bagging them.  The owners also sell apple
cider, usually, and have other activities to make things interesting.  Also
there's pumpkin picking.  In the summer there are blueberry growers who let
folk come in and pick freely.  Oh, there's a lot of that here.

[Zanooda]:
| So what, you mean Xeno is offering his mistletoe cheap 
| or maybe even for free on the condition that people will 
| gather it themselves? 

[Lee]:
I would say that's the jist of the thing.

[Zanooda]:
| What about the second sign then, "Keep Off the Dirigible 
| Plums" :-)? I thought that if this one advises to "keep off", 
| maybe the one about the mistletoe was about the same thing. 
| But if you say it is an invitation, then the whole thing must 
| mean "by all means take the mistletoe, just don't touch my 
| precious Dirigible Plums :-)! 

[Lee]:
Correct.  I'd say that's how it works.

Going back to the berry picking, one must remember that the pickers often
eat while they pick, so not all of the pickings get taken home.  In fact, I
remember bringing back an extremely small bag because I was so busy eating.
:-)  That, of course, goes with the whole pick-your-own experience here. :-)

Cheers,

Lee :-)