Then the paint/sealer went on.
Two coats in fact.
Which brings us to today’s result, now color-coordinated with the house.
It recaptures most of the metal, but not all of it. The balls left behind are picked up by a magnetic sweeper. The sweeper is that two wheeled, single handled contraption in the picture below.
I don’t know how the sweeper works, but you close the lever on the handle and it’s magnetized. You just wheel it around then come back to the middle of the driveway, release the lever, and all the escaped ball-bearings fall in a pile. Like a giant metal-shaving etch-a-sketch. Those ball bearings are fed back into the machine to be used again. As the ball-bearings are worn down to dust, the vacuum collects them to be discarded. It’s a very slow process with only about a 4” swath on each pass. It took hours. After that, they seal all the cracks and smooth them out.
Painstaking hands and knees work. Then they applied the texture coat. That’s a spray gun beneath the big funnel in his hands.
And we arrive at the finished product. For today.
Stay tuned. 
We have a new deck since that picture, but still no color in the yard. She couldn’t stand it any longer. She got Gabriel to dig some sod out of the front yard for us.
Judy laid down some weed barrier and some pavers for a border. We got a fountain. She routed the wiring through conduit underground.
She dug in some pygmy date palms. We added a couple rocks.
A couple crown of thorns. A few annuals. A desert rose. And there you have it. All done.
Except for all the other plants and flowers she is going to put in to fill up the empty spots. 
We decided not to go with the chrome longhorns hood ornament. We have a photo of pelicans in the sunset we like a lot.
We decided to use a silhouette of that as a logo.
