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!

Thursday, January 8, 2015

July 26 - August 1, 1947 Fox Killed All The Chicks



Saturday, July 26, 1947

Nice day. Bill home all day and they hauled the rest of the hay. Rayburn here. Ed Davis came here today to board. Jackie’s birthday.



Sunday, July 27, 1947

Hot day. Billie worked at Lloyd’s. Bill worked in berries. Blyn Davis called this a.m. Betty down to Ferns. Dorothea and Sara to movies. Sara here for dinner.



Monday, July 28, 1947

Showers. We washed. Bobby got burned. Godden and Sally called. Shafer came up for milk.



Tuesday, July 29, 1947

Goden mowed hay. Here for dinner.



Wednesday, July 30, 1947

Bill home and hayed.



Thursday, July 31, 1947

Haying.



Friday, August 1, 1947

Our chicks were all dead this morning. Set a trap and got a fox. Finished up our haying.

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