I’ve been called a mad scientist or MacGyver for my ability to make something useful or repair an item that just couldn’t be fixed.  We used to call this “Yankee Ingenuity” or “Invention is the Mother of Necessity.”

In the last couple of decades as a nation we have become a disposable society that lacks the patience or basic skills to repair things; or the manufacturer says we don’t have permission to get parts even though we own that item.  Not all is lost. We have a Washington politician among others that is instigating right-to-repair laws.  Our joint psyche concerning this matter was in the doldrums for some time but this topic has united Americans of all political persuasions.  John Deere be damned.