Fixing a Broken Tap - HSS Welding

[WmRMeyers]

I just learned a term. People probably think I'm a prepper, but really I'm just an anti-social hermit.

My 2nd stepfather was an ordained minister who thought that Armageddon was imminent in 1965. Used this as his handbook: https://www.amazon.com/Get-thee-into.../dp/B0007G2NXY He was training my little brother and me to be his private army. Former Navy UDT, among other things. One of the things we noticed, having a grandma that was Mormon, was that he wasn't storing food or other necessities. Despite the fact we lived in earthquake country, and that wildfires also happened there fairly regularly. He said we don't need to store food. The Mormons are storing it for us. We were pretty sure that wasn't going to work out as well as he though, knowing our grandma. She was a newly-wed during the Great Depression. Was cooking in a logging camp when my grandpa met her. And I learned how to use a .45 Automatic because of him, at age 12. I knew where he kept his, and he wasn't going to beat up my mom again if I was there.

I'm not particularly antisocial. And mom was a single parent waitress much of our childhood, when she wasn't trying to find us another dad, so we knew that you didn't always have money, and it could get hungry out sometimes. So it makes sense to stash a little extra when you can. Grandma could grow food, but so far I've been unable to keep desirable plants alive, though weeds seem to flourish around me. Guess I may be of Cain's blood.

Bill