A puzzle...

[sam_gordon]

As DW and I sit in the dark after 3 hours with no power...

I happened to look out on our back deck and see a hedge Apple on the bottom of the railing.

The thing is, we don't know how it got there. The nearest tree (and it doesn't have fruit) is 100' away.

The deck is on the second story.

There's some weight to the hedge Apple, probably a pound or two, so I don't think a bird brought it or it was carried in the wind (although we did have 30mph+ gusts).

It was about 5' from the house and the wind has been going from the front to back.

I was gone Sun-Thurs, but don't remember it being there last week.

So how'd it get there?

 

[lanejudy]

Raccoon? Squirrel?

 

[amcnj]

I was going to guess squirrel. But odd that they left it and didn’t take any bites first!

 

[sam_gordon]

I thought squirrel too, but:
1) It's pretty large I would think. About the size of a baseball.
2) Probably 1-2 pounds, so wouldn't that be too heavy
3) It's a second story deck, so would have had to carry it up stairs.