Life for the wife of the house is far from easy. In the house where I live, there are five daughters. Viorica normally gets up between 5 and 6 AM to start the day's work. Viorica strains the milk into jars. Sometimes she makes butter by shaking a jar until the cream separates and forms butter.
Electricity here is a precious commodity.
I understand that in the winter, though, there may only be electricity for 2 or 3 hours a day. It is stored in large metal containers on top of the kitchen roof, and in buckets in the kitchen. To give you an idea of what life is like, the following is an idea of how much we take for granted with our washing machines. Then she gathers wood and dried sunflower stalks, with which she starts a fire in the stove. She fills two large pots with water, and sorts the clothes into piles.