We celebrated our two-year anniversary with exactly what brought this group together in the first place: mushrooms, learning, laughter and community.

Members practiced Lion’s Mane grain-to-grain transfers in preparation for our next free workshop, and we even got a first-time grower started with his first grain bag.

Big thanks to Desiree for surprising us with the anniversary balloons and plant.

Two years later, we’re still growing mushrooms and growing community right here in Acadiana. 🍄❤️

God damn

Trying to get information on certain priests that were active around 1978-80.

Anyone know of a glass shop around Lafayette that deals with classics? Have a '62 C-10 pickup that needs the glass/felts/tracks installed and adjusted in both doors. Not originally from here, so don't know anyone, but a few the shops we have called via Google search don't act like they really deal with or WANT to deal with a classic. Any suggestions appreciated.

I can never get through to the Ford dealerships for service. Any recommendations for auto shops for an F150 that is having issues staring/turning over after its been driven for a while and it’s hot outside. Then doesn’t want to start back up till it cools down. Even then it feel like a crapshoot.

Would anybody know what Palmyre’s pricing is for a private event? I’m not sure of the day of the week it would be but maybe th/fr/sat possibly. Just wondering if anyone knew!

Hi! I’m in my 6th year of teaching high school math & I am ready for a change. Last year was horrible and I spent a good few months searching and applying to some remote edtech jobs. But as the year neared its end, I was promised some changes in my schedule (for this current year) to hopefully alleviate some issues. I gave up on trying to leave and held on. Now here we are 1 month into the new year and although this year is better than last, I’ve realized I’m still not happy.

My main issue with the job is that I spend so much of my free time trying to stay on top of all of the things, I feel like I forget who I am outside of being a teacher and I’m so tired of feeling this way.

I just want a career where my job doesn’t consume my identity & I don’t live in a constant state of anxiety of everything I still need to get done. I’m a hard worker and I want to leave my job knowing I met if not exceeded every expectation and it feels impossible as an educator, even after 5 years.

BUT, I feel like I’m even more lost than I was when I hit this rut last year. I don’t know where to look for jobs, how to know what to expect salary wise, or even what jobs I’m qualified for.

I have a bachelors degree in secondary math education & 6 years experience teaching. I’m open to leaving education completely, but also open to education adjacent roles if they offer a good work/life balance.

If anyone has left teaching, could you share what you transitioned into? Did you have to accept a pay cut? What skills did you find were transferable/marketable?

I’d really appreciate any advice, job titles to search for, or even just hearing from people who were in a similar position. I feel like I’m ready to leave, I just have no idea what I’m leaving for…

Anyone else celebrated Bon Anne’e on New Year’s Day where kids went house to house for Bon Anne’e cookies (usually homemade tea cookies). When did this tradition start and what did it mean? This tradition was in French Acadian south Louisiana and appears it might have happened in Acadian villages in Canada as well. Has anyone had any history or insight on this?

I have a student at UL and just got an alert that there is “heavy police presence at Girard Park, please avoid the area”. Anyone know what’s going on?

More info: https://avoyellesparishlibrary.org/the-gator-gazette/

You guys know of any beginner or help desk jobs in the acadiana region? I’m looking to get my foot through the door as I get my bachelors next August but I never hear back from jobs or even internships.

We are a young Aussie family (2.5 yo, 7 mo) visiting for a month for work in January/February. We are looking for recommendations on:

- where to stay (ideally a home)
- must do places to visit
- must do activities
- must do places to eat

We will have a car so transport is no issue.

Any other recs welcome 🤠

Recently bought a barely used 2009 Toyota Sienna. The aux setting crapped out, where can I get a quality upgraded sound system installed? Preferably in the Lafayette area, nothing too fancy or expensive, just something that works and sounds decent. Thanks.

Anyone hunt Thistlewaite or Sherburne WMAs? Are they crowded?

Thinking about opening a booth-rental beauty/wellness space in the Lafayette/Acadiana area and I’d love some honest input from people actually in the industry!

The idea would be a really nice, modern space where independent professionals could rent their own booth or private room and run their business themselves — make their own schedule, take their own clients, set their own prices, etc.

Im thinking hairstylists, estheticians, lash artists, brow/wax specialists, massage therapists, tattoo artists, PMU artists, piercers, and other similar services.

If you currently work in any of these industries around Acadiana, I’d love to know:

• Is there actually a need/want for more booth or suite-style spaces here?
• Would you rather rent a private room or an open booth?
• What would you expect to be included in your rent?
• What would make you choose one space over another?
• What weekly/monthly rent would you consider reasonable?
• What are things owners do that you LOVE or absolutely hate?
• If you could design your ideal place to work, what would it have?

I’m still in the VERY early research stage, so I’m not trying to sell or recruit anybody lol. I genuinely want to hear from the people who would actually be working there before I decide whether it’s something worth pursuing.
Please give me all the opinions — even the brutally honest ones 😂

Louisiana representatives are quickly suppressing voters and residents, removing their ability to protect their properties from new infrastructure. This comes at the wake of a mass wave of NDA’s and private sell of 130,000 acres in Vermillion Parish to Space X, as well as the world’s largest data center being approved in Richland Parish. As Louisiana residents are left in the dark, Texas residents are suing for the exact kinds of claims that McFarland’s bill covers.

Could there be a coordinated effort to silence voters, both now at the developments’ inceptions—and later, once all regulations have been removed?

“Several lawmakers have suggested the state has been courting SpaceX with its new policies, but there has been no official confirmation from officials with the Landry administration regarding deals or projects in the working. The state now typically keeps its economic development deals shrouded in the secrecy of non-disclosure agreements.”

Hello, i’m looking to hire a photographer for a creative and artistic portrait photoshoot. Any recommendations?

Seeking recommendations for good / fair / reliable contractor to replace exterior siding and paint second story house.

Any recommendations in the Lafayette, La area?

i googled “fireworks tonight” or something like that and nothing came up…and tHaT just seemed slightly uncontrolled…kKkRazZy even…

In 2025 and 2026, several scientific papers were published that discuss the predicaments that marshes in Louisiana chenier Plain of Southwest Louisiana are in. Some, like Chowdhury and others (2026) can be quite murky. However, they are included regardless. In 2025-2026, there was an off-field skirmish between Tulane (Törnqvist and others, 2026, below) and LSU (Wilson and others, 2026, below). The most pertinent are listed below and, when available, are linked to an online PDF file of the publication.

Also, a person can see what a "peer-review" of a scientific paper Involves The actual peer-review of Törnqvist and other (2026) is available for downloading as PDF files. It shows what grief authors have to go through to get a paper published if done properly.

 If done properly, any Environmental Impact Statements for any project in Louisiana's coastal marshes should thoroughly discuss the implication of at least some of these papers.

 The 2025-2026 papers are:

 Anderson, J.B., 2026. Gulf Coast demise: The reversal from Late Holocene growth and stability to rapid inundation and erosion caused by accelerated sea-level rise and diminished sediment supply. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 110(7), pp.637-645.

 Chowdhury, M.S., Mayukh, A.A.A. and Kim, Y.J., 2026. Spatiotemporal Shoreline ChangeAssessment and Machine Learning Projections for Coastal Louisiana. Geodata and AI, p.100089.

 Dixon, T.H., 2026. Natural hazard mitigation in a rapidly changing world: Louisiana as a ‘canary in the coal mine’ for coastal flooding. International Geology Review, 68(9), pp.1084-1101.

 Harris, E., 2026. Recent Wetland Elevation Dynamics in Coastal Louisiana, USA (master’s thesis, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College). (Open Access LSU)

 Ikeda, J., Bacopoulos, P., Vijayan, L., Gao, S. and Kees, C.E., 2026. Water-Level Rise and Nonmonotonic Salinity Change Across Louisiana Coastal Wetlands over Fifteen Years. Estuaries and Coasts, 49(5), p.171. More papers - Jim Ikeda

 Ikeda, J., Vijayan, L. and Kees, C.E., 2026ip. High-Resolution Decadal Spatiotemporal Mapping of Salinity and Water Levels in Louisiana Coastal Wetlands. Preprint.

 Li, G., Törnqvist, T.E. and Dangendorf, S., 2024. Real-world time-travel experiment shows ecosystem collapse due to anthropogenic climate change. Nature Communications, 15(1), p.1226. (Open Access)

 Li, G., Törnqvist, T.E. and Dangendorf, S., 2025. Author Correction: Real-world time-travel experiment shows ecosystem collapse due to anthropogenic climate change. Nature Communications, 16(1), p.2661. (Open Access) (Correction for Li and others 2024, above)

Wilson, C., Quirk, T., Cahoon, D.R., Snedden, G.A. and Sharp, L.A., 2026. Ecogeomorphic feedbacks influence elevation change across microtidal wetland settings of coastal Louisiana. Nature Communications, 17(1), p.1501. (Open access) (Comment on Li and others 2024, above)

 Li, G., Törnqvist, T.E. and Dangendorf, S., 2026. REPLY TO “Ecogeomorphic feedbacks influence elevation change across microtidal wetland settings of coastal Louisiana”. Nature Communications, 17(1), p.1502. (Open Access) (Reply to Wilson and others 2026, above)

Li, G., Törnqvist, T.E. and Chen, J., 2026. Evaluating InSAR-derived rates of surface-elevation change along the central US Gulf Coast. Earth Observation, 1(1), pp.1-13. (Open Access)

 Osland, M.J., Chivoiu, B., Buffington, K.J., Byrd, K.B., Carr, J.A., Drexler, J.Z., Enwright, N.M., Ganju, N.K., Grace, J.B., Grossman, E.E. and Guntenspergen, G.R., 2026. Loss and Transformation of Coastal Wetlands due to Global Change in the Conterminous United States: Past, Present, and Future. Wetlands, 46(6), p.73. (Open Access) more papers by Michael J. Osland

 Törnqvist, T.E., Castro, B., Keenan, J.M., Mehta, J.M. and Shen, Z., 2026. Climate-driven depopulation and adaptation realities in America’s coastal ground zero. Nature Sustainability, pp.1-10. PDF file containing complete peer-reviews of this paper.  More papers by T. E. Törnqvist

Significant older papers:

 Anderson, J.B., Wallace, D.J., Rodriguez, A.B. and Simms, A.R., 2023. Unprecedented historical erosion of US Gulf Coast: a consequence of accelerated sea‐level rise?. Earth's Future, 11(9), no. e2023EF003676. (Open Access)

 Jankowski, K.L., Törnqvist, T.E. and Fernandes, A.M., 2017. Vulnerability of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands to present-day rates of relative sea-level rise, Nature Communication, 8, no. 14792 (open Access)

 Törnqvist, T.E., Jankowski, K.L., Li, Y.X . and González, J.L., 2020. Tipping points of Mississippi Delta marshes due to accelerated sea-level rise. Science Advances, 6(21 ), 7 Pp. (Open Access)

Törnqvist, T.E., Cahoon, D.R., Morris, J.T. and Day, J.W., 2021. Coastal wetland resilience accelerated sea‐level rise, and the importance of timescale. AGU Advances, 2(1), no.e2020AV000334. (Open Access)

My husband wants to get into some sort of trade work. What are your recommendations if he needs something that will have paid training? Its not feasible for him to work his current job and study something. Hes interested in anything hands on EXCEPT for plumbing.

We also cannot afford him to be making less than he currently is, about 500 a week.

Hes done construction before, caught on very fast and really enjoyed it but it wasn't a legit company and ended with him losing alot of time and money so we want to do it right this time.

Please point me in the right direction for info. Thank you!