u/Lopsided-Rough-1562

Hi! I'm on Vancouver Island, Canada, which is zone 7B. It's South of the 49th parallel so temperatures are more akin to Seattle than to other parts of Canada.

I have removed a large hedge and a great deal of my lawn right now is dead/dormant due to irrigation restrictions meaning I can only water the lawn with sprinklers once a week for two hours total.

With the hedge removed I put in a bunch of new lawn soil in its place, but the issue is:

a) watering restrictions end Oct 31st. October gets a massive amount of rainfall here(100-150mm, or about 6"), and September gets hardly any more than August (about an inch)

b) First frost is Nov 10th (on average). By mid November, soil temps will be 10C or less.

So, I need to somehow get the lawn growing faster than it ordinarily would, as Google tells me I need 3-4 months of growing temperatures with adequate water to survive the winter, and this does not math. (You can get a 'new lawn' permit but they have to be issued before water restrictions take place)

Spring was a bust, as the hedge was removed in April but I barely was able to grow any grass before the June 1st watering restrictions went in.

Other than sod, which is expensive and sometimes just dies for no reason, what is my best option to get the lawn ready?

(Spring time faces similar challenges, with a last frost date in early May, so less than a month to grow a lawn).

Secondly, any recommendations on grass that would be easiest to grow? I had success over seeding with the Scotts stuff that's a mix of red/creeping fescue last year, but that's even more dead than the rest of the lawn now, so it grew fast and then gave up. I had a fascination with getting sheep fescue because it requires almost no water but that might be a dumb idea.

The main challenge is keeping this new lawn moist long enough to establish I think.

Hi. I've got a problem where there's one player who is downright unpleasant and hostile. He has a level of autism which means that when things are not going as anticipated he starts to first go non verbal and then he can yell at people or throw stuff. When things are going very well he gets very gloaty and that raises my ire.

He's been especially mean to me lately. Is it unethical to make a deck specifically designed to stop him from playing his deck to the point where he'll rage and leave us alone for a few weeks?

Hi! I replaced my baseboard trim when originally renovating my house. The new trim was painted and dried in the garage then installed on the wall. However, even though it was dry, it accumulated construction dust/debris into the paint that cannot be wiped off(stains that look like dirt and sawdust). The trim piece is square with an eased edge so it's the flat top surface that has accumulated debris, whereas the previous trim had a curved edge that likely would have mitigated any accumulation of debris.

If I sand it and repaint it, is there a way to seal it quickly to prevent this from happening again? Like some sort of repelling clear coat?

My search on Google says it takes a month for the paint to fully cure which would mean that I would have to wait that long before applying the clear coat. As it is the primary bathroom in the house, I would hope to speed up the process.

I've been trying to get powerquery to do something that is easy to do in Excel but requires maintaining formulas, which is akin to a bunch of vlookups to tables to a master data set.

The problem is while in powerquery I can make a query that does something like look at the incidence of data in a set, if I order it for statistical purposes from largest to smallest, but then merge with another query using the same original data, it will reorder the results, or go from one-to-many to many-to-many, because powerquery isn't treating the results of a query as its own table (unlike in SQL, when you have a query inside a query, the results ARE your only data set) but rather the merge is at the fundamental level of the original data.

I know someone will say "why not just do it in excel" and I have but it looks a bit messy and I wanted everything 'under the hood'

So my system needs a ton of repairs being 30 years old. Because of leaks alleviating pressure, when I've fixed things new things break!

So as I fix my 3/4 lines, I find that even with metal collars on any junctions there's a bit of weep. I'm wondering if I'm missing some hidden step that will improve the water tightness of the junctions?

Because of how tough the material is, I use a heat gun to gently warm up the hose to push it onto those ribbed junctions, then tighten up with the collar. Is the heat gun a bad idea?

There's a brand new copilot floating icon overlaying my data and best I can do is dock it to only cover 1/4 of a cell. I have presentations which use my screen with kpis on the sheet and I have optimized it to use as much screen space as possible, but this is getting in the way

Copilot itself doesn't know how to remove it and there seems to be no option to do so. It's not an 'add-on' so it cannot be disabled there.

I hate it and need it gone. How?

I bought 250 feet of drip line from Home Depot. On trying to deploy it and loop it around plants, I'm constantly fighting with it twisting up. I even turned it on and ran the entire thing unlinking it as i went the entire 70 ft distance while it dripped just so the pressure would keep it from kinking.

Came back today and it's super kinked up again.

The last time I bought this stuff I was easily able to lay it out in a straight line around the house and there was no fighting with it at all.

Any advice? Should I make it into smaller segments?