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!

Saturday, December 9, 2017

October 3 - 6, 1965



Sunday, October 3, 1965

A nice day, we worked up in the shed chamber. Took up our dahlias, put away the picnic table. Linda Berry called and Dot, Kennard and David.



Monday, October 4, 1965.

 A very nice day but WINDY and COLD. I got up, went to Norway with Fern and Lloyd. Lloyd got him some work clothes, we called at Haywood Lucks. Had a lunch at Barjo’s. Came home, got supper and Betty and I down town and done our washing. Our well down again tonight. Fern went too and done hers. Tree blew over out here tonight. Bill very lame tonight. Billie done a lot of his odd and end jobs for fall.  Mike $20 trailer payments made today.



Tuesday, October 5, 1965

A very cold and windy day. Bill home very lame. He, Billie and Lloyd hauled a tree off which blew over out here. Betty, Carmen and I over to Norway in PM and got some clothes for Carmen. Betty had a check for Mike yesterday.



Wednesday, October 6, 1965

A beautiful day, not quite as cold. Fern and I spent the day at George and Thena’s. Had a very good time. Came home, had supper, picked over some more boxes. Billie didn’t work at Chet’s. He cleaned up and done more fall work. It looks very clean all around.


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