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, November 28, 2020

November 17 - 20, 1976

Wednesday, November 17, 1976

 

I done a very big wash, also I done some ironing. Defrosted my refrigerator. I made a cake and pie. Betty to coffee group. We went down to Fern’s in evening. Bill busy all day. Hortons to Portland and had their pictures taken. I sent an order away. Keith worked clearing.

 






 

 

 

 

Thursday, November 18, 1976

 

I went to Portland with Betty and Kim. Kim went to the orthodontist for her teeth. We did a dite of shopping. Came home in time to get Kim to school for afternoon. We picked over things Betty got at Chet’s in p.m. I had a baked ham supper. Carmen was up for supper. Keith cleared down in the pasture.

 

 

 

Friday, November 19, 1976

 

A quite nice day. I was busy all day. I finished doing all my work for fall. I went to town. Dawn came up to Betty’s. They hauled some things up from Dawn’s to store at Betty’s. Kim up here for the night. Keith worked down in the woods.

 

 

 

Saturday, November 20, 1976 sawdust, clear, cold and windy

 

A nice day, but very cold and windy. I done a lot of work today. I was late getting it all done. Washed blankets, all bedspreads, sheets. Cooked, cleaned up the whole house and one million other things. Kim here in a.m., Zak here today also. Today Mike Ryan hauled sawdust for Billie and Betty. Billie got his material to use out in the barn down to Grossman’s. Betty and kids over to NE Horse Supply.

 

 

 

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