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!

Thursday, September 17, 2020

March 2 - 5, 1976

Tuesday, March 2, 1976 SNOW

 

A cloudy and snowy day, got about 4 inches of snow. I ironed, mended, made a couple chocolate pies. Bill went to town with a few things for Betty. After school he went down and got Carmen. Chet some better today when Billie saw him. Walt to dentist. School bus late this morning.

 

 

 

Wednesday, March 3, 1976 $198.40 $85.70

 

A miserable day. I done my work up, went down to Betty’s. She went to her coffee group meeting in a.m. In p.m. she had the Berry girls up. No school this p.m. Kim came up in late p.m. for supper. I wrote to Esther. Bill worked on the wheelbarrow. He and Ilan went fishing.

 

Good ole Freya

 

 

Thursday, March 4, 1976

 

Another miserable day. It has rained most of the day. I done my work and went down to Betty’s to help her get ready to go to town to do Fern’s shopping. Delores went too. Bill took me to town. I bought $85 worth of groceries down here. I never bought that amount here in town before. We paid all the bills etc. Betty made calls for dentist, ears, back and medical doctor for all them down there.

 

 

 

Friday, March 5, 1976

 

Foggy when we got up. I went down to Betty’s a little while. She went down to Dawn’s. I washed windows, dusted, defrosted refrigerator and did a dite of washing. Bill fishing. They got a good catch today. Kimmy came up with Betty tonight.

 

 

 

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