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!

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

July 23 - 28, 1954



Friday, July 23, 1954

Cloudy and showers. Dorothea here all day, we washed, ironed and cleaned up the house. Lil called in p.m. Billie sold three heifer’s tonight to Elmer Fogg. Bill awful lame. Paid Herbert for the haying $81 had credit of $21.



Saturday, July 24, 1954

Nice day. Fern went to town with us. Bill getting lamer.



Sunday, July 25, 1954

Rained and cloudy. Bill very lame. Billie mowed lawns. Worked in the garden.



Monday, July 26, 1954

Fair most of the day. I washed. Bill not able to go to work. Fern and Lloyd came up.



Tuesday, July 27, 1954

Iron. Cloudy and showers. Took Betty’s bike down tonight. Kennard took it down in his truck. Billie’s two bull calves went tonight. Horace Flint bought them. Dr. came to see Bill. He was very bad this morning.



Wednesday, July 28, 1954

Rained all day, beginning about noon. Dr. here to see Bill. We put four boxes of peas into deep freeze. Dr. came again today.

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