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, September 21, 2016

December 26 - 28, 1960



Monday, December 26, 1960 20 and 30 above today

A very nice day, on the mild side. I washed, clothes dried good. I took out the tree. Mike and Betty got up and went ice fishing. They have had such a good time this weekend. Tonight Betty went down to Rowena’s. Billie home all day, he piled the wood over. Got the screens off back porch. I washed the windows after supper. Bill and Billie put the windows on. They are nice. We liked them. Put windows on porch. Ronald and family came, and Nola came home with Kennard and Delores.




Tuesday, December 27, 1960

Nice and sunny. The windows are nice and help to keep the porch warm when the sun shines. Also helps to keep the kitchen warm. Betty not home all day. Ronald, Blanche, Jean and Jill called. Jill is a very cunning baby. I done up the work, ironed, churned. Albert Graham and Butch came and sawed the wood.



Wednesday, December 28, 1960

I mailed Betty’s insurance today $4.00. I got Esther’s letter off. Picked over some of my boxes etc.



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