By Jim Whitt As a country boy I grew up having to figure out how to fix things with limited resources — like intelligence and money. I hate to admit this but I have become so suburbanized over the years that I sometimes struggle with what I used to consider fairly routine repairs. Awhile back I was working on a leaky connection from the well pump to the water line at our place in the country. What made the job difficult was trying to pry the menagerie of rusted pipe fittings apart that Dad had used to cobble everything together… Read More