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!

Monday, June 21, 2021

January 5 - 8, 1979

Friday, January 5, 1979 COLD

 

A beautiful day. I have been very busy all day. Ironed, did work, cleaned electric stove inside and out. Defrosted refrigerator, dusted, vacuumed, washed windows etc. etc. Susan gone to New Hampshire today with Bill’s car. I did some washing.

 

 

 

Saturday, January 6, 1979

 

A very nice day, I cleaned up rest of the house, made bread, rolls, pie and a cake. Washed floors etc. Billie over to Norway, called to see Lloyd. He is quite low and very weak. Fern, Betty and Joy over to see him late tonight.

 

 

 

Sunday, January 7, 1979

 

It was cloudy in a.m., it began to snow in late PM. I worked on the puzzle all day. Carmen was here, she did some. Billie down to Fern’s. Bill watched TV all day. Lloyd better this afternoon.

 

 

 

Monday, January 8, 1979 NO SCHOOL

 

Well this has been quite a messy day, rained hard all night. They worked on the roads all through the night. No school. I made a lemon meringue pie and brownies.

 

 

 

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