Hi Chic, Do all the heads work while this pipe pumps water? Is it just one zone or others as well? Does it have a finished or rough end? Cap the pipe and see if that take care of it. A cap may have come off it from water hammer. Check around the area for a cap and glue it back on. Aloha

Boy Lady, I know exactly what you're going through. Our pool was poured the day before Charley hit. It was a year before it was finally finished. We couldn't open our sliders because our cats being fools would have rushed out to the wide open lanai. The pool people felt they could drive anywhere on our side yard. They couldn't get workers, cement, pavers blah, blah blah. The five huge trees in my garden were knocked down and that's where I had my orchids hung temporarily so I had no place for them and a lot of them died while I tried to figure out a shady place away from construction and near a source of water. Renovation is the pits but there is an end in sight BUT the loss of plants that your parents planted ---that would really hurt. I'm sure your garden will look fine and if not, you'll have to invite us back next year and/or post pictures here when you are pleased with it.

It looks like your shutters are a different color than the garage door and front door. I'd either paint the trim the color of the shutters or the color of the door. Not really loving the yellow with the brown. have you thought about painting the trim and garage door the same color as the shutters? I'd either do the front door the same cream or maybe an accent color. It's hard because you have the storm door too.

I hear you on the budgetary problems. Everything but feeding's currently on hold around here at the moment! You can skip the boron, copper, and zinc for the year if you need to. While the boron is impacting lawn quality, the copper and zinc were more rebalancing. Still, you can work without the boron for a bit. If you have to do just one application of the potassium sulfate, cut the others and do whatever one is convenient and affordable for you. If it's zero instead, it'll survive. Prioritizing the above, the calcium lime is the most important. Potassium is number two. Boron number three. Copper and zinc a very distant fourth and fifth. Delaying will slow down soil improvement, but that's not a problem--it just means the grass improves more slowly as well. There's nothing wrong with doing that. Pine trees: The needles actually end up near neutral, although high masses of them can smother grass. The problem with pine trees is two-fold. One, they suck up massive amounts of water and dry out the soil profile. Two, they secrete chemicals that depress out or kill other plants to eliminate competition (literal chemical warfare). Grasses rarely grow well underneath or very near pine trees when you combine the above with the increased shade from the tree itself. But with proper care, you can get the grass to flourish pretty close to the tree, just not under the canopy. Improving the soil means the grass does much better, outccompeting the weeds. It takes time, and some work, but eventually the number of invading weeds drops amazingly. They simply don't have the space to grow and can't compete with the established grasses.