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 28, 2015

July 17 - 23, 1948 Haying



Saturday, July 17, 1948

Phil Hodgins mowed all the big field. Picked 15 quarts berries, made jam. I mowed grass.



Sunday, July 18, 1948

Very good day. Lloyd, Kennard and Val here, they hauled in a lot of hay. I raked with Lloyd’s horse. Had good mess peas.

A young Nanny harrowing with a horse



Monday, July 19, 1948

Nice day. Bill stayed at home, he and Val got in the rest of the hay up in the big field. We washed, picked peas.



Tuesday, July 20, 1948

Nice day. Picked peas to can and also picked some berries. Bill worked today. I picked some strawberries, also Betty and Dorothea.



Wednesday, July 21, 1948

Canned peas. Nice day. Clear, cool. Bill took his car down to B. Harmon’s garage.



Thursday, July 22, 1948

Nice day. Didn’t do much. Barbara Conant here today, she and Dorothea took a walk down in woods.



Friday, July 23, 1948

Rain most of the day. Picked peas. Betty moved her bed. Kennard Schaeffer and Bob called in eve.
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