Everybody has heard of a Mistletoe but not many people know about the Huggletoe. What is a Huggletoe you ask? I’ll start at the beginning.<\/p>\n

I have a wonderful veggie garden. One year, I had some hot peppers that I wanted to turn into pepper flakes that would be used to spice up our dinners. My sister is the master at making hot pepper flakes so I asked her for instructions. She told me the first step is to tie them up and hang them to dry out for a few months. <\/p>\n

So, I tied up these little hot chilis and looked around for a perfect spot to hang them. I wanted them to be away from moisture and somewhere little people wouldn’t be tempted to handle them. As I was looking around, I saw the nail in the wall that we use to hang a mistletoe at Christmas time. It is in the doorway between our dining area and kitchen. It was perfect. I hung it there and made the kids hug me when we were standing under it together. We called it a Huggletoe.<\/p>\n

This turned into a big game with the kids and I. We kept trying to trick each other into standing under it at the same time. For example, I would be standing beside the fridge (just beside the doorway) and pretend to be looking at something very interesting on the fridge. I was say “Holy cow, come and see this”. When they would walk over to see the fridge, I would jump into the door way at the same time as them and yell “Huggletoe”! <\/p>\n

These tricks went on and on. Soon, their friends all knew about our Huggletoe and they would also play along.<\/p>\n

After a few months, the peppers had dried out but I couldn’t bring myself to take down the Huggletoe. We had it hanging there for almost 2 years. Finally I decided it was time for our pepper flakes. Our doorway is very boring now but our jar named “Huggletoe” brings happiness at our dinners.<\/p>\n

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