All this is true.

But here are two stories which may be doubtful, just to show what anecdotes are current in California.

"A man was on top of a California pumpkin chopping off a piece with an axe, when it dropped in.
He pulled up his ladder and put it down on the inside to look for it.
While groping about he met a man, who exclaimed, 'Hello! What are you doing here ?' 'Looking for my axe.' 'Gosh! you might as well give that up.

I lost my horse and cart in here three days ago, and haven't found 'em yet!'" "A farmer raised one thousand bushels of popcorn and stored it in a barn.

The barn caught fire, and the corn began to pop and filled a ten-acre field.