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!

Thursday, April 8, 2021

April 1 - 4, 1978

Saturday, April 1, 1978

 

Well,when we got up this morning the ground was all white again and still snowing. Then it turned to rain. I got the beans to going, made bread, got the breakfast, cleaned up from that, then changed the beds. Cleaned up the whole house, washed floors, done a big ironing.

 

 

 

Sunday, April 2, 1978

 

When we got up it was cloudy and foggy, but it cleared away. Sun came out. Busy most of the day. In PM Dorothea and David called. They were here for supper. Also Muriel Virgin and her husband Vince Stanhope called. Billie and David over to see Lloyd, he was real good. Carmen came up and brought up some popcorn and the paper. Billie called on Lawrence and got butter today also.

 

 

 

Monday, April 3, 1978 mine $99.70, Bill’s $227.40, went to Portland to do Kim’s shopping

 

A quite nice day, on the cool side. I got the work done up and went to Portland with Betty. We done Kim’s birthday shopping. Except some material we will get up to New Hampshire. Fern stayed home with Bill. Dorothea met us down there.

 

 

 

Tuesday, April 4, 1978 went to Shaw’s

 

A cloudy day. It began to rain tonight. Got the work done up early. Then we went to Conway to do Kim’s shopping or rest of it, also the grocery shopping. Dawn and Fern went with us. Dawn done shopping. Fern sat in the car. She had a nice warm robe around her legs. Bill home alone all day.

 

 

 

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