Balls

I have a sweetgum tree. It has a lot of balls (literally and figuratively). The balls fall 365 days a year. Not like leaves. Leaves fall in the fall. These spiky, painful, dried out balls fall on a daily basis. They have marred my child. They have caused people (namely me) to slide on them like marbles and fall. They are a thorn in my side. It's February... in Pennsylvania. And the only use my snow shovel is getting relates to a thousand spiky balls. I raked my front lawn and filled 3 huge trashcans. I never made it to the side or back lawns. That weekend we got a windstorm. Time to rake again. I hate sweetgum trees.