This is what happens when you buy a bank-owned home and the bank has not watered the lawn or the trees the entire, hot, dry summer:

Remember this lovely broken branch after a snow storm in November?

Well, we had just barely gotten that huge branch cleaned up, when a lovely spring snow storm hit and did this:

And this:

And then the wind and rain storm the other evening caused this:

We're getting a little worried that all of our trees might be doomed and we may end up cutting down more than we had planned on. Sad.