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Six kids, and we were Poor. We canned everything we could, and I foraged for edibles when they were there.

wow smithlabs! you were already out there foraging for food when you were a kid?

Found some things I liked to eat, went and picked them. We were broke when I was growing up. But we did okay. :)

smithlabs you probably already told me this but what did your dad do for a living?

He ran a machine shop. Built their machinery, their tooling, and programmed their CNC machines. He could do anything. :)

and he showed you how to figure out problems and that's why you're so good, did he have degrees and do you have degrees?

I am a just living legacy to the leader of the band...

He did not finish his degree, They started a family instead.

I have a degree in EE (so does my Younger Brother). Of my five siblings (I am one of six) we have 5 degrees out of six kids.