teeka you can get this consultation for free. In Florida the utilities companies do a free energy audit and advise on insulation. You can often get a rebate for installing insulation. Your water company will also advise on rain barrels - our local company sells wonderful rain barrels at a very low price. About pavers - the term to use is "permeable surface". Your building department can give you ideas on what materials qualify, and how to calculate your "square foot" needs. Then price your choice of materials, plus installation. Your building code allows so much of a percentage of your property to have "impermeable" covering (slab and driveway/sidewalk) Switching to permeable driveway can actually allow you to add on to your house....

Oh I think you're right! We DID have a large stand of volunteer flowers that looked just like your link growing back there before everything was cleared out. I never knew what they were called and I somehow assumed when everything was pulled up/bulldozed/trenched for sprinklers, that they were gone with the rest of the mess. Haha. Hardy things, huh? Thank you!

Grass look perfect in April and now starting to look like this. Does anyone know what this is? Grass type is tall fescue. Last pic was in April.

Some sort of weedy allium, maybe Allium canadense, wild garlic.