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, February 8, 2015

February 28 - March 5, 1948



Saturday, February 28, 1948

Snowed again today. Joy here today. Bill home late tonight again. Finished up on the job.



Sunday, February 29, 1948

Bill’s father and mother up all day. Fern and Lloyd called also Brud.



Monday, March 1, 1948

10 below this morning. Bill downtown. Billie didn’t work. Town meeting. Bill lame.



Tuesday, March 2, 1948

I ironed. Cold and cloudy, snowed by flurry. Lot of snow. Billie worked. Joy here this week.



Wednesday, March 3, 1948

Bill awful lame. Joy still here. Did regular work.



Thursday, March 4, 1948

Snowed all day got awful cold and 10 below at night. Snow is awful deep, looks like winter. Lloyd brought license up.



Friday, March 5, 1948

I ironed, very cold. Bill still home lame. A lot of snow.

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