COW TOWN

Sacramento has a reputation of being a cow town, pretty much meaning it's a place where nothing ever happens.  I actually don't think that cat ever played much of a part in Sacramento's history.

Agriculture certainly did. Now our illustrious mayor, who mostly cares only about getting a basketball team in Sacramento to stay, has declared us the farm to fork capital, of the world? California? The central valley?

Since for most people eating local, farm to fork, fresh this and that, usually suggests agricultural produce --fruits, vegetables, etc., the meat folks wanted to get in on it. So today they herded some cattle up Capitol Mall.

It makes me feel old and like somebody who was raised in the country, which I wasn't, because I remember what a pain in the neck cattle drives were when I lived in Yerington.  You'd be on your way somewhere, drive around a corner, and there would be a big herd of cattle being moved across the road.  And then you had to drive through the part of the road they just lumbered across.  

And now here are all these state workers coming out in their suits and ties to watch them being herded down towards the Capitol. Actually it was fun.

I think at the max there were probably 30 cattle,  maybe only 20, and about twice that many herders on horseback. Meaning you could never get a good picture of the cattle because there was always a horse In the way of the picture. And it was way too close to the horses for me as well.

The cattle drive started in West Sacramento, came across the bridge, and ended at the Capitol. It was fitting to bring the cattle to the Capitol, since the Legislature is not in session and therefore cannot produce what it usually does so well.