We have a tree in our backyard, which we are told is grimes golden - a really delicious ancestor of the Granny Smith that works well baked or just eaten. Two years ago we got a bumper crop, which we stored in the fridge into the winter. Then last year we went on vacation just as they were starting to set, and came back to find squirrels had eaten every last one of them - save one apple, way up at the top and out of reach, that sat there like a tease until one day it fell - and a deer ate it.

Maybe this year we'll have better luck again.

Dan