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!

Thursday, December 4, 2014

November 23 - 29, 1946 Happy Hen Day



Saturday, November 23, 1946

Warren Chadbourne’s home burned flat about 4 o’clock this morning. Cold. Bill still homeworking in cellar. Billie up to Chet’s. Hiber (?) called also Dot and Aunt Mina called. Mama down to Ferns all night.



Sunday, November 24, 1946

Very cold. Lin Hill brought up our new furnace. Ken, Dolores, Kennie and Rayburn, Bob and Papa called. Bill lame today. Mama came home tonight.



Monday, November 25, 1946

We washed. Very warm. Ironed in eve. Fern and Lloyd up in eve. Lloyd and Bill began on the furnace. Sally in hospital.



Tuesday, November 26, 1946

Cloudy. We churned. I made some brownies. Bill worked on furnace in eve. Billie up to Chet’s in p.m. Billie and I killed our hen for Thanksgiving.



Wednesday, November 27, 1946

Nice cold day. We cooked. Billie worked up to Chet’s. Bill downtown after work to see Lin Hill and get Dorothea who is at Brownies meeting. Bob got a doe today on top of Mt. Pleasant.



Thursday, November 28, 1946

Bill (?Billie) worked on tie up. Bill worked on new furnace. Chicken, sweet potato, mashed potato, squash, onions, shell beans, gravy, hot rolls, cranberry sauce. Lemon sponge, custard, date filled pies, whip cream cake, Jell-O, tea, Indian pudding. Brownies and doughnuts. Coffee.



Friday, November 29, 1946

Bill back to work. Billie didn’t work today at Chet’s. He did a lot of work here. I washed. Carlton called. Bill worked on the new furnace in eve.



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