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!

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

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.


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