Vadna..never plugged the oil can spout with a raw potato, but remember having to trim the wicks...even though we lived in town, we had no electricity..had town water from a faucet in our front yard, but none inside the house..we had an outside "Johnny house"... Seems that bedbugs were kinda prevalent in those days..never hear of them nowadays.. All our transportation was on foot..never had a car .. cows ran loose back then and every time our cow had a calf, she went across the Powell River to do it, and we had to go hunt for her and carry the calf back home. as Dolly sings, those were the good ol' days when times were bad.. Ole Paul the wages of sin is death..repent before payday