The blog posts below are taken from my grandmother's diaries. Althea Green Smith Crook was lovingly referred to as Nanny to her immediate family ~ thus her diaries are called Nanny's Diaries.

Nanny wrote in her diaries when she remembered to - mostly in the evening. There will be some years in which she didn't keep diaries and there will also be some days/weeks in her yearly diaries in which she skipped or forgot to write in them. For the most part, these are her words - written as she wrote them. There will be typos, forgotten punctuation, and other grammatical errors - but I am rewriting these as my Nanny originally wrote them.

As with all old handwriting, there are some entries that I can't quite make out - and these entries will be followed with a (?) to signify that this may or may not be correct or I can't figure out what she is trying to write.

Thank you Nanny for leaving us 50 years worth of memories! We miss you!

Sunday, November 16, 2014

July 20 - 26, 1946



Saturday, July 20, 1946

Ironed. Cleaned up the house. Very hot last night and this morning.



Sunday, July 21, 1946

Rained all day. Bill and Billie made the tie-up over. Lloyd got badly hurt. Stan Hall called in eve. We are going to trade cows.



Monday, July 22, 1946

Cloudy all day. We washed. Bill and Billie still working on tie-up.



Tuesday, July 23, 1946

Rained hard all day by showers. Finished up the tie-up. Mama washed fountains. Bill and I cleaned celler. Billie cleaned up out back. Dorothea cleaned playpen. Fern and Lloyd called in eve.



Wednesday, July 24, 1946

Nice day. Bill worked. Billie worked in p.m. Stan brought up the new Guernsey cow this forenoon. Billie went to town. We did a big wash.



Thursday, July 25, 1946

Ironed. Fair and hot. Dorothea and I went up to Minnie’s in the evening.



Friday, July 26, 1946

Cleaned out the china closet. Mama cleaned silver. We put oilcloth on shelves.

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