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, July 18, 2015

November 2 - 6, 1955



Wednesday, November 2, 1955

Cloudy. I did the ironing. Got letters off.



Thursday, November 3, 1955

Another rainy day. Cleaned up the house. Got the new light bulbs for the kitchen light. The fluorescent. Got the pipe ordered for the drinking cups in the barn.



Friday, November 4, 1955

A very rainy day. Done up the housework in forenoon, cooked in p.m. Over to Dr. Ruby Days with Donnie for another treatment in evening. Got a letter from Esther today.



Saturday, November 5, 1955

Rained. Terrie Moffitt here all day in p.m. She and Betty to movie and then back for supper and evening. Bill put the water fountains in down in the barn.



Sunday, November 6, 1955

Cloudy and rainy. Bill built a new workbench. Billie worked in tie up. Hauled a load of bedding and the rubbish off. Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis called.


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