It's a never ending battle:  squirrels and food.  My friend Nick understands it this way:  that's all they have to do all day, figure out ways to get food.
 

I watched last week, as a squirrel jumped from the ground to a horizontal limb about 4 feet up.  I stomped and yelled and made a bunch of noise, sending it right up into the apple tree!! AAK!!!!  Nope, that didn't work out too well.  

 

So, off to Home Depot for a roll of flashing.  Hey, it works to keep them out of the bird feeders.  So here's how we hope to get some apples this year.  We've got our fingers crossed.  Hahaha!!

 

I'll let you know if it works.  
 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!