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, February 10, 2021

August 29 - September 1, 1977 School Shopping

 

Monday, August 29, 1977 Hot and Humid

 

Another very hot and humid day. I did a wash. Bill and Billie worked on the fence and finished it. Bill got so hot. Billie did too but they got it done anyway. I went down to Betty’s to help Kimmy look for her braces, but couldn’t find them.

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 30, 1977 Bill had tooth pulled, JOY, horses in new pasture

 

Cloudy and showery when we got up. I done my regular work. Susan over a little while early. They were working on the bathroom at her place. I went to town early. Came home, put my wash out. Today they brought Ebony and Gabe back. They put the horses in the new pasture. Betty, Kim and I went down in the woods. Billie worked on the lumber. Bill had a tooth pulled. Today JOY FOUND OUT PAT IS GOING TO SETTLE FOR $5000 and her own things. Will be there this weekend to get them. Cooler tonight.

 

 

 

Wednesday, August 31, 1977 DID THE SCHOOL SHOPPING

 

Started the toolshed down in the pasture. Betty, kids and I down to Portland and done the kids school shopping. Dorothea went and she helped Kimmy do all of hers. We had supper late than came home.

 

 

 

Thursday, September 1, 1977 Josh came home

 

I done my work up then went down to Betty’s. I washed this morning. Fern was here. We looked at the kids clothes. Josh came home, he was at Mrs. Edwards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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