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, February 22, 2017

August 9 -12, 1962



Thursday, August 9, 1962

Rainy day. One of those miserable days. I straightened out the house after Milan, Betty, Linda and Norma left at 7:15 AM. Betty and Mary Lou cleaned up the chambers. More corn and cukes. Cleared in late p.m. Timmy having a good time. After supper he went with Billie, or his friend Dub as he calls him, to get butter etc. Bill and I called to see Fern and Lloyd’s furnace.



Friday, August 10, 1962

RAIN RAIN. I washed in spite of the rain. I wrote to Dorothea and sent her license. I done up the housework and in late p.m. Mrs. Julie Ingalls of the state welfare department called to see me about boarding children.



Saturday, August 11, 1962

Cloudy. Bill and I to Harrison to pay  insurance. In p.m. Bill worked on the ditch from septic tank. I done some cooking today. Kids reading etc. Timmy playing. Fern and Lloyd called. Billie down to Lawrence’s.



Sunday, August 12, 1962

Cleared off in forenoon, it turned out to be a very nice day. I done up the work. Bill flushed the overflow ditch from septic tank. Also he dug up the culvert at end of the driveway. Betty helped him do all that. Fern and Lloyd called. Kennie and Dot here. Billie worked at Arthur Ward’s. Timmy is real cute. Alice and her friend came for the kids about three. We enjoyed them very much. Fern and Lloyd here in late p.m. and we had Italian sandwiches.

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