Nanny's Diaries: January 5

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, March 17, 2021

January 5 - 8, 1978

Thursday, January 5, 1978

A quite nice day, mild to mostly sunny. I got ready and Dawn, Betty and I went to Shaw’s shopping. Came home about 3:30. Got supper. Had a chicken, very good. I got it at Shaw’s.

Friday, January 6, 1978

It was a nice sunny day. Not too cold. I did a wash. Washed windows and the general cleaning. In PM Betty and I went to town, also up to see Dorothy. She is quite sick. Came home, got a fish supper.

Saturday, January 7, 1978

Cloudy mostly. I done regular work, change beds, dusted, washed floors, made bread and did a big ironing. In PM went to Norway to see Lloyd. He was in such shape or his mind was. We didn’t stop.