“The little woman and I live in a house without electricity or running water on the family homestead in southern Indiana.”
You really gotta work hard to find that much isolation in southern Indiana.
The property had electricity from the late 30's until the early 50's. After my great-grandfather died, my grandfather received an electric bill for $2 with no usage.
The REMC told him that this was a "connection" fee and that he had to pay it if he wanted to be connected to the grid, so Grandpa solved the problem. No one lived here until I retired a few years ago and I the figired that the rule never to cross my grandfather still applied.