Thank you for the suggestions.

So you think I should add the soda ash now? Is it best to do that with the filter in a ciruclate mode as I have it now and is this best usually? I do not have a circulate mode filter valve so I have been adding borax in the past through the skimmer directly. I could add the circulate valve if it is better to do it this way or just take my filter element out as it is now and run it. That becomes cumbersome though.

I think I will turn off the filter and let the borax settle and vacuum as Carl suggested. We had some rain yesterday and the pool is a tad high anyway.

Thank you