@Dimity  grief and anger. A LOT of grief and anger.

I was lucky that my son’s 800 sq mtrs of yard needed two invasive trees cut down and the stumps removed.

One day during a storm. I was standing up to my ankles in mud sobbing and just swinging a pick ax so hard that part of the root ball came away, wedged into the pick ax 😂

With the roots hanging from it, it looked like I someone’s head on a pike.

Lightning flashing all around. I’m soaked to the skin, covered in mud, hairy rootball on a pick. Chanting “HIT THE STUMP!”

The storm pass and eventually so did my anger.

G