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, February 5, 2015

February 7 - 13, 1948



Saturday, February 7, 1948

Not quite so cold. We washed. Ruby Hill up here for weekend. Bill and I down to Jean’s in eve. I got new oil cloth for shelves.



Sunday, February 8, 1948

Bill’s father and mother here for the day. We enjoyed them very much. Nice day.



Monday, February 9, 1948

Very cold. We washed.

Betty with Norma Gay Feb 1948



Tuesday, February 10, 1948

Awful cold, 25 below. Bill and Hayd didn’t work. Pipes froze up. Bill and I went to town. We got some coal today.



Wednesday, February 11, 1948

Cold today, awful cold. Kennard and Delores and Fern and Lloyd called in eve. House was very hot today.



Thursday, February 12, 1948

Nice warm day. Clothes dried very good. Mama down to Dot and Forrests.



Friday, February 13, 1948

Cloudy but it began to snow tonight. Warmed up a lot.

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