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!

Saturday, February 14, 2015

April 10 - 16, 1948 Cow Plans On The Rocks!



Saturday, April 10, 1948

Bill didn’t work. Very cold and windy. He and I downtown in a.m. (?) Cows too high. We still got to plug along the hard way.



Sunday, April 11, 1948

Cloudy and snowed. Bill worked at Lloyd sawing wood in a.m. His father and mother up here in p.m. and eve. Cold.



Monday, April 12, 1948

Bill and I took Blanche and Joy to Portland to have Joy x-ray on her head. Our cow plans gone on the rocks.



Tuesday, April 13, 1948

Nice day. Washed, hung clothes out back for first time. Mama and Bill called at Uncle Sulmore’s in eve.



Wednesday, April 14, 1948

A bad nasty rainy day. Snowed. Bill only worked half day. He and I went down to Jean’s in eve.



Thursday, April 15, 1948

About 4 inches of snow this morning. Most of it melted today. Mama down to Dorothy’s today and going to (?) Prez speaking with them tonight. Bob took 18 hens. Bill, Billie and Bob gone smelting.



Friday, April 16, 1948

Cloudy and cold. I washed. Dorothea down to scout party. Kennard called here in eve. Raymond called.

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