When life gives you apples ... be grateful and make some apple pie

My next-door neighbor's apple tree has an abundance of apples this year. This little apple tree is dwarfed by the gargantuan silver maple on the edge of my property. The two trees somehow also share the narrow space between our 70s-built ranch homes with a scraggly ponderosa pine and a bushy blue spruce.

In normal years, this little apple tree produces a modest yield of somewhat wormy apples the s...