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!

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

October 2 - 8, 1948 207 Rhodes Island Reds



Saturday, October 2, 1948

Milan and Betty here all day. Bill still home lame. Nice day. Dug our potatoes.



Sunday, October 3, 1948

Nice day. Mama up in the mountains with Bob and family. We went up and got our pullets up to Raymond Gammon’s. Bill and I went. 207 Rhode Island Reds.



Monday, October 4, 1948

We washed. Mama got ready to go away. Aunt Ava down in p.m. We took up the plants.



Tuesday, October 5, 1948

Nice day. Mama, Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis went away. Betty and I cleaned up the barn.



Wednesday, October 6, 1948

Betty and I cleaned up the shed chamber. Nice day. Also workshop.



Thursday, October 7, 1948

Betty and I cleaned up the shed. I washed. Bill, kids and I down to Jean’s in eve.



Friday, October 8, 1948

Cold, cloudy. Rained hard in p.m. and all night. Charlie and Jean came up to see pullets. Delores called in a.m. also.


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