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, August 27, 2018

July 5 - 7, 1968


Friday, July 5, 1968

Sunny and mild. A very nice day. I went to Norway with Joy. Done grocery shopping. Came home, done up the housework. Washed. Bill and I to town and down to Gordon’s tenting area. Fern, Lloyd up in evening. Billie worked till late.



Saturday, July 6, 1968 Jeff 10 today

Partly cloudy. I got up early. Got my work done. Billie and I walked around the fence. Billie took me to town. Billie working for Lawrence. Bill worked on the front doorsteps in p.m. He mowed lawns after supper. Fern, Lloyd up in eve. Dennis called to talk with Jeff. Jeff wasn’t here so Bill and I took the message down. I cleaned the car.



Sunday, July 7, 1968

Bill finished working on the steps. It was clear in a.m. then got cloudy, rained some then cleared and got real hot. I done up my work. Finished or polished the outside of the car. It looks very nice. Billie didn’t work today. He cleaned up around. Fern, Lloyd up in PM. In late evening before dark Bill and I took a ride in his cleaned and polished car.


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