Thanks @sherm1082! So I've been in my house since August of 2013. It's a new house which the builder sodded with Tif419. I've been following the bermuda bible for the past 2 years. I have a TruCut Reel mower that I cut the grass at about 1" religiously every 2-3 days (3 days max). So this year I decided to sand my lawn to remove a lot of dips and valleys in the lawn (which as we all know are exacerbated when your grass is only 1" tall). I used SuperSod's leveling mix which is 30% compost, 70% sand. Its really great stuff. I put this down last weekend (Memorial Day weekend). Anyways, now my bermuda seems to be sending up seed heads. They are tiny and white but really take away from the appearance of the lawn. I understand that means the grass is stressed in some way. I watered the leveling mix in and we've gotten some rain since then but I forget exactly how much. Any ideas? I'm thinking of getting a soil test as I have not done that yet on this lawn. Thanks for any help and guidance you can provide! Note: My last fertilization was early May with 34-0-0 slow release (1lb per/k).

Oh that weed. Always has a reason to spoil the fun. Actually he beat me to it. Cottonseed does have chemical issues. I'm not sure that really amounts to anything just like I'm not sure the salt in rabbit food amounts to anything. I do agree that you will not get the grass to do much more by adding organic fertilizer to the chemical. HOWEVER, adding organic is not a total wash out. It has been noticed that there can be a yo-yo effect from using chemical fertilizers for long periods of time. What happens is you get on a roll with chemical fertilizers and soon enough the grass is entirely dependent on them. If you miss an application by a few days the grass turns to crappp before you get a chance to fertilize. Then you add more fertilizer to get it back on track and possibly overdose it. Again, as has been said, it is hard to OD with fertilizer on bermuda. One mitigating factor in this yo-yo cycle seems to be the occasional use of compost. So since I'm am mister anti-compost, I would suggest you use organic fertilizer at least once per year along with your chemical regimen. This should keep your soil microbes from total exhaustion and boost them back from chemical heck. In your back yard, simply starting to water should bring something to life. I have successfully restored a bermuda patch that was about 8x20 feet into 98% St Augustine. I expect full reclamation in a month or so. The St Aug died out completely in 2011 (oopsie on the watering) and is now recovered. TW keeps telling me that I can never get all the way back to St Augustine, but I've done it repeatedly over the years.

No, it is 'Izael'. I can find people with the name, but cannot find the meaning, or any relation to Biblical.

" ... these extraordinary Hebrew poems are words that sing, using a concrete imagery keyed to our physical existence, in ways you would scarcely guess from the existing English versions." There's beauty in Alter's scholarship, I think, as well as the importance of going back to the original text. Challenging, but fascinating. This book is on my Christmas list, if I can wait that long :-)