Welcome back to the second and final installment of my backyard transformation! If you missed Part 1, we laid the groundwork, but today is all about the "heavy lifting"—getting that stubborn stump out of the way and prepping for some new life. The Great Stump Struggle Let’s talk about the stump. It was a bit of a situation, to say the least. I started out with the basics—a hatchet and some hand trowels to dig around the root system. While the hatchet is a classic for a reason