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!

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

July 13 - 16, 1975


Sunday, July 13, 1975 Rain

A cloudy rainy day. It was thundershowers at times. Very heavy rains off and on all day. I was busy all day. In late p.m. Betty’s family came, we had a picnic lunch or supper inside. I washed after supper.



Monday, July 14, 1975

Dorothea starts a job at a new place, Portland City Hospital. Today I helped Betty to get her house cleaned up for her coffee group meeting at her place tomorrow. It showered all day off and on. A miserable days, so hot and humid, sticky and rainy. Bill didn’t do much. Joy called a little while at Betty’s.



Tuesday, July 15, 1975

Another cloudy hot rainy miserable day. It was a little better than the past few days. Betty’s coffee group met at her house in a.m. I picked some more peas.




Wednesday, July 16, 1975 New Ref

A fair day. On the hot side. I was down to Betty’s, we picked her peas and greens and froze them. Kids went swimming in p.m. Tonight Betty got a new upright freezer and refrigerator from Dawn Babbitt. It is very nice. Bill, Billie and Walt went down to Denmark and got one for Dawn and Dawn swapped with Betty. Dorothea up tonight a little while.

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