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, December 5, 2020

December 15 - 18, 1976

Wednesday, December 15, 1976 very mild and sunny, Billie

 

I washed and ironed, the clothes dried good. Betty to the coffee group meeting. She took Fern to hospital to see Lloyd for the PM. Then she and Walt got the Christmas trees. They got theirs in and decorated and put the gifts on tonight. Billie had a very bad sore mouth and teeth. He went to the dentist. They opened up the abscess in the top of his mouth. Very painful and sore. Bill isn’t doing anything nowadays, just sitting. He isn’t so good when he eats and don’t exercise. He needs to be careful.

 

Decorating the tree


 

 

 

 

Thursday, December 16, 1976 cloudy, LLOYD CAME HOME

 

Not too bad temperatures today. It has been cloudy. I done up my work, down to Betty’s then we went to town. She done some shopping. Fern came up to Betty’s to see their tree. It looks very nice. Then we went to get Lloyd at the hospital. He is very weak. Betty went down to Dawn’s to get Kimmy’s blankets and came back and she and Bill got our tree and decorated it. It is very pretty. Susan and Vince and Monica were here and they helped to decorated too.

 

 

 

Friday, December 17, 1976 SNOWING

 

I done up my work, down to Betty’s. We cleaned her house all up. Susan and children called. In p.m. went to town shopping. In evening called at Fern’s. I worked on Christmas list etc.

 

 

 

Saturday, December 18, 1976

 

A nice sunny day. I changed beds, cleaned up the house, washed floors. Kim up in bake cookies for Girl Scouts. Betty and Walt called and Zak. Billie finished up his Christmas shopping. Dorothea and David called. Dorothea called at Fern and Lloyd’s and Pat’s. Here for supper and we went down to see Betty’s tree.

 

 

 

 

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