Rural electrification in AMerica,circa 1970-we had a woodstove anyway,along with kerosene lamps,and cooking our steaks on a spit over hours old coals was such a kick. Remember how much fun ( and romantic) it is to make candles with paper pint milk jugs,and the easily amused woman ! And then wish for the darkness to come- so you will snuggle closer together, and watch the light from multi colored candles dance from all the reflective surfaces in the room. I will break out my buttered rum batter,and you can amuse me with Russian Yazika that sounds like English,and I will tell you I have been feeling like zhit,while I stifle a laugh. What wonderful possiblities when the darkness brings all the family together to marvel at our closeness when deprived of such comfort.How great the quiet!