Annual Apple Picking

The NorthernClan went apple picking. Again. If you've been following this blog for a few years, you know that the Northerns go apple picking every year. It is always a trip to the same orchard, it seems to be the same weekend every year, and there are always too many apples brought home. Also, fun is always had - regardless of the crowds or if Mommy runs someone's face into a tree branch. (If they ever shut down the operation that makes maple-syrup-drenched cider doughnuts, there might be a riot....)

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This year, the Northerns arrived at the orchard late in the day. Good for parking, bad for apple picking. The pukehead idiots families that arrived earlier in the day swept through the trees like locusts and stripped every apple within reach off the branches. NorthernToddler came up with the idea of being hoisted aloft so that he could snag some fruit.

Here Toddler demonstrates his technique. Every orchard has ladders, right? Toddler monkeys up...

NorthernDaddy and Mommy had more fear than Toddler as he climbed up to the top of the ladder (all the way up) to snag apples.


He can even climb it from the underside!

Toddler's been telling all the girls that the red scratch is from a knife fight...

...He really got the scratch by forgetting to duck while he was travelling on Mommy's shoulders!