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!

Friday, November 13, 2020

September 25 - 28, 1976 First Frost, Fern Has Dizziness

Saturday, September 25, 1976 FIRST FROST

 

This morning we had the first frost for the season. Zak was sick last night, but better this morning. He didn’t get up until 9 AM. Billie has been busy all day, cleaned up the garden, fixed a fence, hauled bedding for Betty and himself. Carmen and Betty down to the MSSCPA. Walt worked in a.m. Zak here all day. He got kind of tired long last part of the day. He was good and played good.

 

 

 

Sunday, September 26, 1976

 

Not much sun today and late in p.m. it clouded up and it rained. Billie has been very busy all day. Done a lot of odds and end jobs. Bill didn’t do anything. Not so cold this morning. I done my wash, one line full dried good, rest didn’t get dry. Walt’s family down to Dawn’s for the day.

 




Dawn, Mother and Daddy

Dawn, Mabel and Bunny


Horton Family

Morgan family

All the kids


 

 

 

 

Monday, September 27, 1976

 

Partly cloudy. I did a dite of wash. Got them in and did my ironing. Bill didn’t do anything today. Walt and Betty up to Sweden and looked at a cottage lot on Stearns pond. It has been kind of a cool damp day.

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 28, 1976

 

It was kind of cloudy today, some sun. I did up my work then Bill and I went down to Dorothea’s to take down some tomatoes. Came home, made a pie and tuna fish casserole and got supper. Called at Fern’s, she is having another bad spell, dizziness. Fern had another dizzy spell, in bed. Had Dr. Gluck.

 

 

 

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