California Gold

Whenever I hear about the drought in California, I think back to that emotional moment in the fall of 2012 when we struck water on our farm.  Underground water!  Until you've farmed you have no idea -- No Idea -- how crucial water is.   When I first moved to Minnesota I used to laugh at those silly farmers who drove around after a rainfall looking at rain gauges in their various fields.  Here's a poem I once mocked them with:

In Leota
there is lots to do
Like watch corn grow
and hear cows moo...

I was SO CLUELESS!  Now, I live and die inside by the amount of precipitation we get and the speed of the winds, aching over how they will affect our strawberry plants.   I watch AgDay with my husband.  In the morning I find out how much rain they are having in Brazil and Argentina and how it will affect commodity prices, and marvel at this entire world and its' interconnectedness.  Water!  What a blessing!  And farmers...definitely have a bit more upstairs than I used to give them credit for:)