May 1 - 4, 1965

Saturday, May 1, 1965

A nice sunny day. Done a little of everything, then cleaned Betty and Mike’s room. Betty and Kay and their daughters over to Norway. Kay and little baby called. Billie down with Lawrence and Butch fencing and buying cattle.

Sunday, May 2, 1965

A very nice day. Bill finished porch roof. Alice Boutilier called. I done regular work. Billie worked for Lawrence and Butch. Got a pair of steers down to Berwick.

Monday, May 3, 1965

Nice and sunny, but the wind came up from the East and it made it very cold. I did a very big wash. Did rest of the work, got the clothes in and done a big ironing after supper.

Tuesday, May 4, 1965

I got at my cleaning today. I did our spare bedroom upstairs today. I did a dite of cooking. Dorothea called tonight. She is now all done work. We talked about her coming and us going out to her house.

April 27 - 30, 1965

Tuesday, April 27, 1965

Still cloudy. I cooked, done regular work. Cleaned cellar way and shower in downstairs bathroom. Betty and Mike slept all day. Kennard called. I got clothes in and did my ironing, all done. Betty gave her bird away today. Billie finished his fencing tonight.

Wednesday, April 28, 1965

Kind of cloudy most all day. I did some cooking. Lloyd called. Sylvia Andrews dog got snarled up in the bushes out front in the woods. She came and got him. I sent the records to Graham. I began in the shed chamber.

Thursday, April 29, 1965

A beautiful day. I finished the shed chamber. Did top of the barn, churned. Minnie and Rosalie called. Betty and Mike slept all day. Pretty good. Mike went fishing.

Friday, April 30, 1965 Betty and Mike’s first paycheck

A very nice warm spring day. I did the upstairs curtains, they dried very good. Billie home today, he did up most all of his odd and end jobs. He has my flower beds ready, bulkhead doors open. Gone smelting tonight. Betty and Mike got their first checks today. How pleased they was. Paid some bills. I done a bit of work upstairs. Betty, Carmen and I to town tonight. Billie and Bert gone upstate smelting tonight. Took storm windows off.

April 23 - 26, 1965

Friday, April 23, 1965

Cloudy. Got real cold and raw. I finished the cupboards and draws in the kitchen. Done regular work. Betty and I to town after supper. Billie over to Phil Hunt’s cottage tonight with some other guys to go smelting.

Saturday, April 24, 1965

A very nice day. I done up regular work, did some cooking. Fern and Lloyd called. Mike went fishing down to South Bridgton. Bill, Carmen and I went to town. Bill worked on the roof after we got home. Billie worked for Lawrence. Cold.

Sunday, April 25, 1965 PEAS

A very nice day. I got my work done. Outside most all day. Bill planted first mess of peas. Betty, Carmen and I out and over in 9 acre field, got some Mayflowers. Betty and Carmen called at Marguerite Clark’s. Mike worked at the Bridgton Knitting Mill. Billie worked on his fence, look so nice and clean after he got it done and cleaned up. Bill worked on roof.

Monday, April 26, 1965

Cold and cloudy and rained with snow, a terrible messy day. Mike out looking for a hedgehog. Betty didn’t sleep much. She called at Marguerite’s. I did a big wash. Billie worked on the fence tonight.

April 19 - 22, 1965

Monday, April 19, 1965

A fair day. I washed, clothes dried good. Betty and Mike quite tired this morning after their first day working. Betty’s feet tired. Aunt Ava called. Betty and Mike to town. Mike smelting with Kennard tonight.

Tuesday, April 20, 1965

Tonight am writing with my new pen which came with a nice name playpen set Betty gave me. She got one for Mike also. Today it has been cloudy all day, cleared in late p.m. I made a chocolate cake, ironed, a few other chores, cleaned china cabinet. Betty came home from work very tired and a bad headache this morning. Mike tired and they slept all day. Bob, Kennie and Dot called.

Wednesday, April 21, 1965

I began to work in the kitchen, the cupboards. Betty and Mike felt a lot better this morning when she got home. Kennie and Dot called, he got through work. Billie worked outside today.

Thursday, April 22, 1965

I worked in the kitchen. A beautiful day. Fern, Lloyd called. Betty and Mike are happy about their new jobs.

25000 Views - Thanks Russia!

 Today we reached a big milestone. In 2014 I started posting Nanny's Diaries to share with family and friends near and far. Today we reached 25,000 views! Amazing.

Nanny would never understand what the internet or a blog is - she barely mastered a cordless phone before she died. She never did quite get how to leave a message on an answering machine. Wait for the BEEP Nanny! Instead she would leave her message while the outgoing message played and chances are if you heard a message that only said ALLED - it was the tail end of her message NANNY CALLED.

Nanny's first diary was 1944. While she missed the years 1949-1953, she then wrote in her diaries until her death. Every Christmas she was gifted with a new diary for the following year. She may have missed some days and messed up on other dates, but her diaries are a priceless treasure that have been used as entertainment, a reference for important dates and a means to recall past events that have grown blurry with time.

So today we reached 25000 views. If Nanny was still here and keeping her diary, this would have been what she called a RED LETTER DAY. (Big events usually got a capitalized lettering at the top of the page written in red!)

Below are some interesting tidbits about the readers of this blog.

Most readers of the blog come from Facebook. Not surprising since I post sometime on Nanny's Diaries Facebook page. The second largest group of readers come right into the blog directly.

The top two blog postings are 1953 and 1952 respectively. That is interesting because Nanny didn't keep diaries in those two years, but I did post pictures in those two blog posts  and viewers must have found them interesting.

Most interesting is where the majority of our readers come from. The number one group of readers are US at 15787 views. What is surprising is the next four countries that round out the top 5. Coming in second is RUSSIA with 2568 views. Third is FRANCE with 2194, fourth place is PORTUGAL at 555 views and lastly, strangely, is BRAZIL with 286 views.

For those who are techie - rounding out the info, the top 3 Operating Systems used to read Nanny's Diaries are Windows 59%, Android 16% and Apple 10%. The top 3 Browsers were Chrome 54%, Firefox 2%, and Internet Explorer 12%.

Thank you Nanny for the diaries and laughs and Thank You to all the readers for taking the time to read Nanny's Diary postings. See you again at 50K.

April 15 - 18, 1965 JOBS

Thursday, April 15, 1965 Water thawed out in the barn

A nice sunny forenoon, it clouded up in PM. I did my ironing. Mike fixed Carmen’s fence. Cleaned up the work bench. Betty and I went to see Mr. Lord for Esther. We put the TV back where it belongs. Billie bought a lot of meat and other groceries tonight. Betty all upset today. Kennard and Rosalie called.

Friday, April 16, 1965 Betty and Mike got JOBS

Rained good all day and we needed that. I did some draws and closets. Betty and Mike down to the Bridgton Knitting Mill and each got a job to go to work at 11 PM Sunday to 7 AM Monday. Betty and I to town in evening, called at Ferns.

Saturday, April 17, 1965

Partly cloudy, a little on the raw, cold and windy day. Done my regular work. A dite of cooking. Billie worked at Lawrence’s. Mike raked rocks. Snow tonight.

Sunday, April 18, 1965

Tonight Betty and Mike off to work at the Bridgton Knitting Mill. First time Betty ever worked away from home on a big job. Kennie, Dot called. Wesley Gorman here and they bulldozed the mess from the barn off. A sunny day. Talked with Dorothea and Jeff and Den.