Nibco Sillcock Repair

Hello, I'm digging around my bunkered in the ground house removing lots of dirt. I was going to go all the way down to the basement until I reached this pipe. Like uncovering a fossil now I'm following the pipe. I've made the turn around the corner of the house and so far it's following the house. I don't know where it opens and closes yet. From what I can tell it's not a drain for a window well because there is concrete poured around it right at the base of the window well. I'm wondering if maybe there was a window well drain at one point and they cemented over it for some reason? I haven't reached the depth of the window well around the corner to see if the well has been cemented over around the pipe like the first window. If not for a window well drain can anyone comment what the purpose of this pipe may be for? The reason for the digging is I get water run off from the surrounding yards that channels right into my back yard. Previous owner piled lots of dirt to try to slope/grade the water away and made some french drains but that's not holding the water back. I've had water fill up a window well running into the dryer exhaust ruining my dryer. I'm sick of the house looking like it's half buried under ground while still not stopping water in extreme down pours. I want to waterproof the proper way putting in a sidewalk with channel drains on that one side of the house instead of just having an extra two plus feet of dirt above the basement foundation wall. I can keep digging around the house to the depth of this pipe but as it stands the pipe has stopped me from getting deeper down along side the house.

Happy holidays friends I am among those dopes who forgot this year to winterize my two garden hose bibbs. Weather has already been subzero here in Chicago and is currently 12 deg. F. I do not have frost-proof hose bibbs. Normally, at the end of fall I detach the hoses, turn off the supply valves in the basement, and leave open the bibb valves for the winter. As of last night, I have detached the outside hoses, and closed the inside supply valves (lever-type ball valve on copper supply lines). Not surprisingly, when I tried to open the bibbs to allow for expansion, I found them frozen. Question: Can I just leave well enough alone, or should I use a heat gun to thaw the bibbs long enough to let out trapped ice (and the water behind it)? With the bibb valve left open, it could then refreeze as it always does but with room to expand without breaks. (FYI: One supply valve is 3' from the exterior wall and has the small drain cap; the other, added after a pipe burst a few years ago, is 12' from the exterior wall, and has NO drain cap. Both are mounted below grade. I suppose I could open the drain cap on the one that has it...but...I've never used it before and risk causing a new issue. Thanks for any opinions. gregger (the dope)