I’ll be out of pocket for a couple of weeks, out in Kommiefornia helping wrangle two grandkids as my youngest recovers from some major surgery. Suffice to say, blogging, commenting, and pretty much everything else will be light/non-existent…
But, in ‘other’ CA news, actually heard this from both Steve and youngest daughter, who has a friend that is a winery manager up by Hopland.
Napa Valley’s already struggling wine industry is being slapped with a new groundwater bill as county officials scramble to meet California’s state-mandated ‘sustainability goals’. Even grape growers who don’t pump groundwater will have to cough up $17.53 for every planted acre under proposed fees for the 2026-27 fiscal year.
Those who actually use groundwater for irrigation face another $26.91 per acre, taking their total hit to $44.44. County officials argue that even growers who dry-farm or use surface or recycled water benefit from having groundwater available.
Full article, HERE from The View from Lady Lake blog.
The winery he manages is a ‘dry farm’ winery, basically on the western slopes of the hills, and it is about 10 years old, so it is producing. But, the charges are going to put them in danger of having to close, as their small winery doesn’t make that much a year…
Sigh…
The oppression is terrible in that land.
Next they will have to pay for the sunshine that falls on their land.
How dare you be productive in the People’s Republic of California?
Once more with feeling.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
NFO: Hoping things go smoothly, Gramps. Looking forward to a post on the state of the State after you return.
“Next they will have to pay for the sunshine that falls on their land.”
I think somebody already proposed that a few years ago.
Look for surreptitious non-flush outhouses to proliferate.
California’s state-mandated ‘sustainability goals’ aren’t sustainable. Or in this case, even rational. Glad I left back in ’81.
Reading too fast, thought it said “helping strangle two grandkids”. They must be a handful, then I reread it slower.
sustainability programs and research often have a first assumption that political consensuses now or soon will be effective in binding persons very far into the future. This is obviously a fairly insane hypothesis when you really think about it, so presumeably there are some really crazy academics who are genuinely so defective in their thinking.
All- Thanks for the comments. Been up since 0300 to catch flights, plus a 2 hour drive. Made it in one piece…
The morons in Kali voted for all of what they are getting. And deserve it. Now if we could just wall the place off to keep the idiots there. Otherwise they move to other places bringing their political insanity with them.
They could desalinate seawater if they wanted to, and it would end the water crisis.
Dan- I know, and I’m going to be working on both daughters about GITFO out of Cali!
LL- True, but the CCC voted that down multiple times!
JL,
I hope you are successful in Operation Calexit with both daughters and their families. There are many places that wouldn’t actively persecute them, like California does! I have two siblings who complain but would not leave Cali.
I can’t understand why anyone would stay in a state run by people who hate them. I left 36 years ago and have returned to visit, but would never live there again unless they completely change their ways. I miss the weather, and I spent my college summers up near Hopland (outside the tiny town of Navarro, CA). A beautiful state (or at least, it was) with terrible leadership.
Representative Harriet Hagerman (R) Wyoming chairs a resource committee. Recently she took California to the woodshed; that the state hogs water from other states while spending little to develope and preserve their own water resources.
Will you need to fall back on your military escape and evasion training during your visit?
Well, what do you expect from mexafornia? Maybe November of this year will bring some change for the better.