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, May 12, 2018

June 7 - 10, 1967


Wednesday, June 7, 1967

A beautiful day, very hot. I put screens on, washed windows on the outside. Washed all the curtains. Put tomato plants in the ground. Gordon up, they worked on the plumbing. Bill (?)



Thursday, June 8, 1967

It was cloudy and rainy today. I washed a big wash of everything. Cleaned pots and pans, did some packing. Up to the house in evening. Dorothea, David and children called. Bill and Gordon worked on the bathrooms.



Friday, June 9, 1967

Cleared off, very nice. It got hot. Dorothea, Betty and I moved in p.m. Billie took me to town. He bought a bedroom set of Thurlow. Bill bought a pump today. Mrs. Carter called on phone.



Saturday, June 10, 1967 MOVED

A very nice hot day. Betty and Billie moved a lot more things today. Bill worked putting wallboard on up to the new house. Stanford and two boys came with a load of furniture etc.


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