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The last half is done!
We decided our next major house project was to redo our driveway. It has been terrible since we bought the house. 2/3 destroyed blacktop & 1/3 sunken concrete that made for a flooding hazard during the rain. Weeds all over, hard to shovel or snowplow. No fun for bikes or toys for the children. Tripping hazard for everyone. We actually decided to redo it a while ago but other things came first. We would have made it straight since we didn't own the backyard yet. But the two big pine trees were in the way. We didn't want to have a new driveway get destroyed by tree roots like the old one did so we waited. Then after we able to purchase the backyard, the driveway came to the top of the list. We prepared by cutting down the two pine trees & grinding up the stumps. We had contacted the local companies that do driveways & got quotes. A long & frustrating process that was. Then a friend recommended Gilson Construction. Turns out I know the owner from my time as a Service Advisor @ Bergstrom & Witt. They came back with an affordable bid & had no issues with our project. They were great to work with & accommodated all our requests. We have no qualms recommending them ourselves. We now have an amazing driveway that has no more flooding issues, will be easy to shovel, & the kids just love to play on. Totally worth it.
We were fortunate enough to arrive at the Nessebar-Messamria fortress ruins at the same time that a musical group of young people came with their teachers to perform in song, dance, and pipes upon the ruins.
A nice group of American Wigeon on the Yaquina Bayfront, which shortly afterwards turned around in a group and actually headed towards us. One of them was a Eurasian Wigeon drake, a tourist who shows up occasionally on our coast. He seemed to be keeping company with a hen that (if I'm reading Sibley correctly) is an American Wigeon hen. Well, that's where hybrids come from.