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!

Sunday, May 9, 2021

July 30 - August 2, 1978

Sunday, July 30, 1978

 

A quite nice day, on the cool windy side. I got my work done up. Esther came up to spend the day. We picked beans. Walked up to the shelter and Dawn’s. She enjoyed being away. Cliff and Fern went to Norway or Paris to see Lloyd.

 

 

 

Monday, July 31, 1978

 

Kind of a partly overcast day. It was warm. I washed, busy all day. Clothes dried good. Dorothea came at about suppertime. She ate with us. She spent the evening then just before she left to go home she called at Joy’s. Billie back to work.

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 1, 1978

 

Cloudy and rain showers. This is awful for the first day of the month. I hope we are not in for a wet rainy month. I got my work done up, did the ironing and Betty called and wanted to know if I wanted to go to Portland. I went with her, Dawn and Zak. They got the lights for the shelter.

 

 

 

Wednesday, August 2, 1978 got Carmen’s bike

 

This is been a cloudy misty dreary day. I done regular work. Then I worked at desk all day. Bill and Kim went down and got Carmen’s bike. Took Kim’s down to be repaired. In late PM it cleared up, the sun came out. Betty worked at shelter all day. Tonight I called at Fern’s, Esther had gone to the concert.

 

 

 

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