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!

Monday, October 30, 2017

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.


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