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, April 1, 2015

February 8 - 12, 1954



Monday, February 8, 1954

We washed, cold. Billie worked up to Chet’s in p.m.



Tuesday, February 9, 1954

I ironed. Cooked. Billie, Betty and I over to Aunt Ava’s in p.m.



Wednesday, February 10, 1954

Aunt Ava and I take the cat Tommy up to Dr. Greenleaf at Bethel. Nice warm day. Billie went to Norway with Chet, got three bags grain.



Thursday, February 11, 1954

Churned. Cooked, did housework. Mild.



Friday, February 12, 1954

Cold wind blowed all day. Zero all p.m., 8 to 10 below in the evening. No school in grammar school because frozen sewer pipe in grammar school. Had both kinds of oil delivered.


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