This is a most unfortunate situation and the reason why one has to be cautious about willows. From the sounds of it, now that you've removed the tree, the outlying (detached) root system is sending off shoots to take over a new tree. The removal of the main tree had been a mistake. Ideally, you;d chop it down to a stump and apply round-up heavily and let the poison travel down it's root system and this will kill eventuall kill off the entire tree. Now in trying eradicate the roots, how have you been digging them up? Cutting them where you find them? This leads to more new plants developing where you've cut off the roots. I cannot think of any ways to go about it but to see if you can find each and every shoot, apply Round Up heavily and let the toxin travel through it's root system. When there is evidence that the shoots are dying, then dig the root system out and be careful not to cut them and accidentally create more plants. Sadly this may cause you to dig up your lawn. As for plants growing through the deck, if you can find a way to crawl beneath and install a weed cloth to cut off it's access to sunlight and water, that would kill off any new growth.

Well, I turned off the power and checked the wires I could see and such. I found a couple ground screws that were not that tight and tightened them up. The spa light seems to turn on now, but it likes 75% best and never 100%. Both pool lights I guess were worse than I thought and don't seem to want to turn on at all. Guess both relays could have died at the same time (??) Maybe I will have the pool co come out and if the relays are bad, just have them put in the old, standard relays for now. I would prefer to upgrade to LED sometime anyways. Chris

My kitchen walls--what there are of them--are a dark burnt orange. All kinds of colors can work, but it depends on things like what the cabinets are like. Mine are blond bamboo. Coral will be hard to match to a lot of wood tones, though it can be done. You can also take the same coral you used for the den and mix it 1:1 or 2:1 or 2:3 with base white. That way you get a lighter tint, but still the same color (the other ones on the card are related but generally not the same). I can't find the picture right now, but there was a blog entry with an Italian kitchen with apricot walls and pale wood cabinets that looked great, in terms of color. I bet coral would look just as good. It would also look good with white or cream cabinets. Pale yellow could work but might be cloying. Or you could go full on Florida retro and do coral walls with aqua cabinets, or vice versa--though you'd probably need some pink plastic flamingos, and other retro kitsch to pull it off. What color are the cabinets?

Thanks for your comments. I wasn't even sure if I was asking a question or just making a comment.. Oyyee... Went to the tile store today with both sample doors and decided I really like the one that is not having a promotion so I guess I will just suck up the extra cost. And I do like the counter top that we picked out for it better than for the other cabinet. So its Medallion in Chestnut and Burton Brown Cambria. Getting there! And I think I will have DH hang (or hold) a light up from the ceiling so I can just make sure in that light.... :-)