Losing Part of the Apple Tree

Just last month I was starting to think of some Spring chores, including getting our apple tree pruned - http://hawksbillcabin.blogspot.com/2010/01/february-pruning.html ...

It turns out that the weight of the snow on some of those branches caused one of the main trunk branches to break and fall, luckily only hitting the house with a glancing blow and no damage.  So we had Ricky Dinges come up and cut the fallen tree out of there.

While he was there, we had him cut down a very gnarly old Dogwood in the back, that was trying to wrap itself up in the power lines.  It's sad to lose a 50 year-old tree like that, but there was a real danger there so we thought i was a good idea. 

While we were talking about his work and paying him, we took a closer look at this pine tree next to one of the white oaks.  Two years ago, the pine in a similar pairing fell during Spring thaw - so we've decided to have Ricky and his crew back in to take this tree down before it falls on its own. 

Looks like I am going to have another bunch of camp logs for Chris -