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, December 16, 2020

January 25 - 28, 1977

 

Tuesday, January 25, 1977

 

It was a sunny day, it cleared late p.m. I worked on the puzzle. I went down to Betty’s. Bill and Kim to town. Kim up here in p.m. a little while and and Zak came up. Bill plowed snow in p.m.

 

 

 

Wednesday, January 26, 1977

 

A very nice day, not too cold, temp around 18 to 20 today. It flurried in p.m. I did a wash and a dite of ironing. Bill went fishing alone. Ilan had to take Minnie down town. Betty to coffee group. Sent some papers for Fern.

 

 

 

Thursday, January 27, 1977

 

Snowing when we got up. It cleared off during the day. I did some washing, also I ironed. The storm and cold weather is very serious in the Midwestern parts of the US. Bad blizzards. Extremely cold. No gas supplies. No oil, frozen gas lines. Schools and factories closed. I was down to Betty’s.

Carmen and Freya

 

Friday, January 28, 1977

 

Up and got the work done early. I got ready and went to town to do the shopping. Delores went with us. I came home and got my reading caught up, worked on the puzzle. Carmen went to the school dance tonight.

 

 

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