Swifty, I got news for you, you ignorant SOB. I didn't make my bed. You friggen dust bowlers are what started the move out here in large droves. Then the ones that didn't come with the dust bowl came to work in the ship yards during WW2, then your friggen kin came. I am 69 years old, went to a little country school, 75% of the kids at that school were born in the mid west. Hell I can talk okie with the best of them. Calif. is not all desert and not all libs. Some of us have been here since before it was a state, and no I am not Mexican. By the way lettuce is not grown in the desert, it is grown in the Salinas Valley on the coast. Tomatoes are grown in the Sacramento Valley and neither valley was ever a desert. If you don't know about the land in California you should keep your trap shut. ED