BtVS Quadruple Drabble: Christmas Eve Kiss

[badly_knitted]

Title: Christmas Eve Kiss
Fandom: BtVS
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Angel.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 10: Mistletoe at sunnydalescribe.
Spoilers/Setting: First half of Season Two.
Summary: It’s Christmas Eve and while everyone else is having fun, Buffy is patrolling.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Joss Whedon.

Comments

[evil_little_dog]

So really cute! I love it!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! Buffy needed some cheering up.

I even researched to make sure Mistletoe grows wild in southern California. Apparently it's a nuisance.

[evil_little_dog]

Like kudzu in the South?

[badly_knitted]

Something like, but probably not quite as invasive. I've heard Kudzu vines grow really fast, but Mistletoe is a parasite, and much slower growing. It can kill trees though if it gets too out of hand.

[evil_little_dog]

Yup - I used to go collect mistletoe this time of the year in the South. It was fun. :D

I also have this incredible broom handle that is of an oak branch with parasitic mistletoe on it.

[badly_knitted]

That is so cool!

I've seen it growing on an apple tree in a local garden, but that's the only time, although I think it's fairly common in parts of England. It's a fascinating plant.

[evil_little_dog]

I also have a broom made out of a drying stick from a Kentucky tobacco barn. That broom is fun because of the broom head - it's purple and blue. I've given it some hawk feathers to hold on to for me.

The mistletoe/oak broom handle wears the collar of one of my favorite dogs.

Mistletoe is just so much fun.

[badly_knitted]

You have some awesome wooden things! Love that you've decorated them =)

I've got a walking stick made out of a branch, I keep it under my bed for clobbering burglars ;)

Plants in general are fun, there are so many strange ones.

[evil_little_dog]

I do love my wooden stuff. <3

One of my walking sticks has a face carved in it. I need to do some more decorating to it. It has a natural hole in it that I keep thinking I need to string with ribbons, and beads, and feathers. You know. Fun stuff.

I am very fond of plants. I collect irises and daylilies currently, because my yard has absolutely no shade.

[badly_knitted]

I love anything made of wood, the more natural the better. My mum was the same.

Sounds like you have plenty of ideas for decorations!

I love plants and gardening, but my own health problems and the fact that I was caring for my mum for the last few years of her life mean the garden is seriously overgrown. I'm hoping to get more time out there next year, cutting back the brambles and ivy, and the overgrown shrubs. We get a lot of shade, thanks to trees in neighbouring gardens, and the lawn is about two feet lower than everyone else's so it gets waterlogged in heavy rain. I would like to have a few more plants and a few less shrubs. My day lily sadly died, I think it got suffocated under everything.

[evil_little_dog]

I love wood, too. We got a nice chest at work full of food from a customer and I nabbed it. I don't know what I'll do with it yet but...I think I want to turn it into an art box. I am considering hinges and a little lock for it, and something else. Not sure what yet. :D

Daylilies are pretty hardy. It might still be there, under everything.

My mom tries to dissuade me from buying more flowers for our yard but she likes them too. And this year, she let me plant a veggie garden. It did pretty well but I need to dig up the weeds surrounding the garden and put down some mulch. :D

[badly_knitted]

Ooh, lucky you! That sounds like a great idea. I don't do art, can't draw much more than stick figures, but I do various crafts and hopefully will make progress next year turning my sister's childhood bedroom into my craft room. It's tiny, but I think I can make it work.

I had hopes, but not a single leaf has poked through all year, so it doesn't look too likely.

Well done with the veggie garden! I don't really have anywhere that gets enough sun for growing veggies these days, but I might grow tomatoes again next year, I usually do well with those.

[evil_little_dog]

I craft, too, but not as much as I draw. I need to start painting again - I miss it. I bought myself some inexpensive oil paints the other day and need to find my canvases. But that'll be after the holidays, because I have cookies to bake and presents to wrap and you know. All that stuff.

Awww, I'm sorry to read that about your daylily.

I love growing tomatoes. They have such a different taste than store-bought fruits.

[badly_knitted]

Hopefully 2019 will give you plenty of opportunities to paint.

I'm planning to ease off a bot on my writing next year to allow more time for gardening and cross stitch, the two things I most want to do. Then again, I said I was going to do that this year and wound up writing more than last year... I blame the plot bunnies, they're out of control.

Homegrown tomatoes (that always makes me think of Guy Clark's song) are sweeter and have thinner skins, plus you can grow so many more interesting varieties. I have a fondness for yellow tomatoes, and you never see those in shops here in the UK.

I may have to try to replace my daylily, maybe get a few more, once I get that piece of garden cleared and ready. There's so much work to do out there when the weather starts to improve.

[evil_little_dog]

Thanks, I hope so. I also need to get back to my stained glass - my cousin wants to teach me and help me get my window finished (an antique window that was partially broken that I found at a yard sale and got for next to nothing). Art is something that really appeals to me. I cartoon a lot but it's so different working with colors! I would love to get an art computer to play with but that's kind of out the picture at the moment.

I want to start writing more. My job is such that my computer is attached to my face for 8+ hours and then I don't want to write when I come home.

I like to grow a lot of different tomatoes. I had yellows, stripies, purples, bicolors...

I wish I could send you a daylily! I have so many...but I doubt I could ship them overseas. D:

[badly_knitted]

I think tee are all sorts of customs restrictions governing plants, sadly. I'm sure I'll be able to get some here in England when I'm ready though.

I love stained glass, we have a small window each side of the front door, I think it was original with the house which was built in the thirties. There was more on the bay windows but we lost that when the we had double glazing fitted.

I've never seen a purple tomato, that really sounds different! I've grown a lovely green variety called Green Grape that turns a sort of olive green when ripe, little green cherry tomatoes. Those are great.

I hope you'll be able to write more next year, it must be hard to fave a computer screen when your work involves staring at one. Even though I want to cut down I'll still be writing every day. I've only pledged 200,000 words at getyourwordsout for next year instead of my usual 250k.

You should post some of your art online, I'd love to see what you do!