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I'm cooking in a cajun cookoff for a fundraiser in Oklahoma next week and am looking for some ideas to set our team apart from everyone else. There will be some other Louisiana transplants there cooking so it's not like it'll be an easy win.

There are no menu limitations. We've heard there are always jambalayas and boudin, and sometimes a pastalaya or gumbo cooked. We are doing a big pastalaya, some boudin, probably frying some beignets, and I'm thinking about doing chargrilled oysters as the kicker to set us apart. Looking for advice / feedback on the oysters and some other ideas.

With runners on 2nd and 3rd. We should at the least had the corners in. No force anywhere and tying run on 3rd. Could argue the entire infield should have been in.

Seems like a great thing but the increase is due to all the progs moving there from California and other blue states.

I think it could be quackgrass. Tough to tell from the pictures but it looks very similar to what I dealt with in my yard.

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One indicator of quackgrass is clasping auricles - I could only find 2 auricles in your second pic and they looked like they might be clasped. It grew much quicker and much taller than the rest of my grass and started to take over pretty quick. The surefire way to know is to let it grow out and make a seedhead.

The only way to get rid of quackgrass is to dig it up or roundup it. I chose roundup (they have complex root structures) then fertilized heavy to crowd out the smaller bunches of it that I missed. Good luck.

I've been doing a lot of reading on insulin and it's effects for bodybuilding, and thinking about trying a secratagogue / GDA the next time I bulk. No way I'd do injections so I'm not too worried about hypoglycemia or some of the other negative side effects. Just wondering if anyone on the board has any experience with them, if they work, or if I'd be just as well off eating the right things at the right times, controlling insulin release naturally.

I'm specifically looking at Insuligen from masupps ( LINK). 777, I know you recommend Mike's mk-677 supp, I've actually used a couple bottles and have had great results, wondering if you know anything about his insulin supp. I know his secratagogue has some extra stuff in it to provide benefits like preventing fat gain that is typically associated with insulin increases, wondering how legit those claims are. It also claims to keep blood glucose at natural levels on the low end (because it's glucose dependent), so you don't have to worry about hypoglycemia.

Thanks in advance.

I have several issues going on with my yard and am in need of major help.

Some background: In Oklahoma, house was built in 2016, I bought it in 2018. Pretty sure I have a Bermuda base but now have several different grasses growing. I have an in ground sprinkler system and just turned it back on 2 weeks ago. Have it going about 5 minutes per station right now every other day and we've been getting a lot of rain lately.

I'm a first time homeowner so all of this is new to me and I've already made some mistakes. Last year in trying to get my yard greener I spread some tall fescue seeds on both the front and back yards (I just went to Home Depot online and bought whatever had the best reviews). I signed up for a yearly yard treatment plan - 4 weed & feed treatments and 3 fertilizer treatments (theses spray treatments are a huge thing up here, everyone gets them). I had a weed & feed treatment about a month ago now. The weeds were very bad before they sprayed and they all disappeared, but now I have a few new, different type of weeds popping up so I spread my own Scotts Weed & Feed yesterday.

My only neighbor (I live on a corner lot) could care less about their yard and basically has a clover patch going so I know that's not helping me at all. My house backs up to a huge ag field that the farmer just lets grow up a few times a year so I'm pretty sure I'm getting some seeds in my yard from whatever grass he let's grow up back there.

I'll number the issues to make them easier to refer to.

Front Yard:
1. I all of a sudden have bunches of this grass popping up in the front yard. It grows much quicker than the rest of the yard and is much greener. After some research I'm guessing rye grass? How can I get rid of it? Just pull up each bunch of it or is there something I can treat it with to kill it but not the bermuda base?



2. My front yard is fairly sloped away from the house in all directions. In the corner of the front yard closest to the street my grass is just dying. I have been making sure it gets plenty of water so I know that's not the issue. I think I've seen on this board before that a fungus can do this? Thoughts & suggestions?



3. I have oddly shaped holes popping up in the front yard. The first 2 have been there for a few months now and I just found a 3rd yesterday, it's brand new. The existing holes are just getting worse. Any idea what could be causing these? Sticking my hand down in the holes they are pretty damp. My initial thought was a sprinkler line has busted underground and is causing the ground to saturate, but the lines have been empty until 2 weeks ago. Could it just be the ground settling since the house is still fairly new?



Back Yard:
4. In the back yard I have several different grasses growing. Some of it is the same grass that I have up front, closer to the fence there is another type that is thicker and bigger bunches, the light green in the first and 3rd pictures I think is some tall fescue that took hold, then whatever the 4th picture is. Again, is there anyway to get rid of these grasses without killing the base?





5. Then lastly in the back my yard slopes up to the fence that separates the ag field behind it. On the slope along the entire property line the grass is disappearing and turning up bare spots.



I know it's a lot but thanks in advance for any help provided. Last year I worked out of town all spring and summer so my yard looked like shite and this year I said I was going to get ahead of it and have a beautiful lawn. I thought I was on the right track then it seems like in the last couple weeks it's all gone to shite.

Yeah I would just wear it to watch the game, never in public.

If you and the wife were in a heated argument, what would piss her off more? Interrupting her and saying

Shut the frick up!

OR

Shut your mouth girl, daddy's talking

I think if I told her shut your mouth daddy's talking she'd be so shocked the fight might end right there.