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, June 9, 2018

September 27 - 30, 1967




Wednesday, September 27, 1967

A beautiful day. Two phone calls from Betty and Carmen. Gordon shingled backside of breezeway. Cut the hole through the roof for chimney. Lloyd painted front of garage second coat. I cleaned electric stove. In evening Billie and I started cleaning up the cellar. We put some things upstairs. Betty sounds very happy and content.



Thursday, September 28, 1967

Partly cloudy, mild. Gordon finished the chimney, put on a garage door and some wiring. Fern, Lloyd called. I called Betty. I cleaned up the cellar, got it ready to put the furnace in. I also defrosted deep-freeze.



Friday, September 29, 1967

RAIN. Rained hard last night. I done up regular work. Made two pies, ironed. Gordon put other door on garage and done some wiring. Sal called. Billie took me to town after supper. Rained all day.



Saturday, September 30, 1967

Rained hard early in morning and most of the forenoon. Cleared about noon. Bill and Gordon worked on the water getting it into the house. Billie and I to town in p.m., called at Dolores’s, at Neimi’s for vegetables. Fern and Lloyd here in a.m. Billie got a check and a letter from Horton’s.

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