Trees are my friends.  At least that’s what I tell people when I slice a golf drive and my ball bounces off a pine tree and ends up back on the fairway.  Trees shade us in summer and heat us in winter.  They provide lumber for our homes and fruit for our diets.  They protect the lakes by keeping them cool and holding the soil from washing into the water. But trees can just as easily turn against us.  They will drop dead limbs on our roofs or uproot in a storm and fall on our car or our house. …

Tree work can be dangerous work. When cutting a tree near a building or wires (or anywhere for that matter), the list of things that can go wrong is endless. If you need tree work done near your home, and you are not trained to do it yourself, you should consider hiring a competent, professional and licensed tree service provider. But, when you do, be careful not to open yourself up to any liability for injured workers by hiring an uninsured provider. Some tree service providers advertise "Fully Insured" but do not carry Workman's Compensation Insurance (Workman’s Comp).  Workman's Comp.…

As we all take a step back and adjust to the new normal created by the CoronaVirus, it appears as though mother nature just keeps right on chugging along.  The snow has melted, the birds are singing, and grass is turning green.  Pretty soon the leave will pop, and the black flies will be driving us crazy.  I’m glad to know the world has not stopped turning, even though we may have thought is would a time or two.  This is not to say that I am not saddened by the losses and suffering we’ve seen and heard about, and…