Scooping the leaves with a scoop net is #1. Do you have the test results from your last testing? I need pH, alk, and CYA. I also need the size. A big bottle of Clorox is about equal to a pound of Cal Hypo of Dichlor. When adding it, pour most in the deep end and brush. Add enough to bring the pool to shock level. That would be about 75% of the CYA level. Then add about a quart per day per 20K gallons. Do this daily and brush it and skim it daily, Don't panic. It is what it is and we can only do so much. Scott Scott I would hold off on the leaf eater. There is probably enough water in the pool.

Looks like common milk weed. The seeds blow around and plant themselves everywhere. You can keep them and enjoy them till they bloom as well as a nice home for the monarch caterpillars. However you'll want to snip of the huge seed pods before they bust open to help prevent them from spreading everywhere.

Whoa, what the heck is going on with that exterior. So, if I'm interpreting this look correctly, this is what I'm supposed to see: Someone built an old stone house (but not really, because it's fake and probably has vinyl on the side). They then later built an addition onto the left of the (fake) old stone house, but somehow weren't able to match the roof and window line of the original (btw, even the 'old' widows are off-kilter and you will never un-see that now that I've pointed it out). Then, even later, they decided to add a garage over there. But that wasn't enough space, so they threw a lean-to structure onto it. I can't really tell when the front and side porches were added on, but they clearly aren't part of the original (fake) old stone house. It's like Punky Brewster grew up and decided to become an architect. I don't know what's going on these days, but I see this strange, mismatched sock aesthetic popping up all over the place in new construction. The other day I counted 5 treatments on a front exterior elevation: horizontal siding, vertical siding, faux cedar shingle siding, brick, and that awful rock veneer stuff. All on a single side of a house. I guess this is just the natural evolution of that aesthetic playing out. The interior is quite pretty in the photos, but that's a face only a mother could love. (Edit to include: I am not an architect and the opinions of a random internet stranger don't really matter. But when I do upload my concepts in a 6 months or so, I hope they are roundly teared down in a brutally honest discourse if they are lacking)

Then there are these (just for s*its & giggles, because prices on 1stdibs are notoriously stratospheric!): Classical Revival/Art Deco Nickel over Brass Bed, France Art Deco Nickel-plated King-sized Bed