Water, water, everywhere but California.

Today we visited a water pumping plant.  Sounds boring, but was very enlightening about CA water issues.  I am not sure I will ever see water the same way.  Not letting water run when I brush my teeth has taken on new meaning.  I am so thankful that we do not have the same issues in NC...yet.  Visited the CA Farm Bureau today.. The host of California Bountiful--RFDTV is so funny--the entire PR department was.  Everyone was great and wonderful hosts.  Tomorrow we visit San Francisco--clam chowder!!! then leave around 4:30am on Saturday.  I have been to CA on three previous occasions, but have seen an entirely different side or  perspective.  Urban encroachment, water issues, prices of land and water, regulations, anti-agriculture terrorists(they set fire to 14 tractor-trailors that haul beef cattle--luckily there were no drivers who routinely sleep in their trucks), these are real-life daily issues facing farmers in CA.  We need farmers.  We must do whatever it takes to support them.  They are some of the best stewards of land and animal.