We're having our driveway repaved today. It's been crackling, buckling, and most problematically draining the entire street into our backyard (we had to sandbag during the hurricane so it wouldn't come in the house!). The driveway was 25-30 years old with such erosion that loose rocks would come out of it every time it rained. And while I'm looking forward to a new, flat, safe surface (with a small expansion at the garage) and the new Belgian blocks along the edge to help with erosion, I'm most excited by the two boulders and two big rocks that the crew unearthed in the process--landscape features! We've added the small ones to our existing rock wall and the two huge ones (which he estimated at 1 1/2-2 tons each!) in line with my favorite rock. The kids are going to love playing on them and one of them is tall enough for me to lean against when I'm outside. Really a pretty amazing reminder that the Ice Age glaciers came through here and those big boulders probably hadn't been unearthed or moved since then (with the Ice Age beginning 2-3 million years ago, the last glacier left the area about 22,000 years ago, after several advances and recessions). Too bad the kids were at school for it--what a great geology lesson that would have been!
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