Cherry Picking

 

 

The cherries were starting to ripen and the raccoons were fighting in the tree so I decided to have the kids pick all the red ones to freeze for winter use.

In our family we have a rule. If you can climb into a tree by yourself you can climb that tree.

This worked well until the younger kids started snapping the branches off to get to the cherries. Or to remove unwanted branches to the point of harming the tree to make a branch more comfy. So now they are banned from climbing trees for another year.

Hopefully by next summer they will understand the 'cause and effect' principle better. And will respect and take care of the trees rather than stripping them.

After picking all the cherries they could reach...

and eating half of them...

I managed to remove the stone and freeze them for winter baking.

Yummy!!!

 Mumzy