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!

Friday, September 3, 2021

October 18 - 21, 1979

Thursday, October 18, 1979

 

Kind of cloudy in a.m. but it cleared and kind of on the mild side. I done up regular work. Bill and Billie worked up to David’s. I went down to Betty’s. I helped her a dite upstairs. Came home and watched TV. Billie went up to help Dawn but she didn’t have her wood ready to saw. Carmen home sick with asthma.

 

 

 

Friday, October 19, 1979

 

It cleared off good after some cloudiness. Bill and Billie up to David’s and hauled some rocks from down in the field. Betty took Delores and I to town. David and Dorothea up today.  Not too hot but it got quite warm in PM.

 

 

 

Saturday, October 20, 1979 hot

 

After a dite of fog it got so very hot. I did my regular work. Made cookies. Baked beans. Cleaned up house, washed floors etc. Carmen and Kim still having asthma bad. Betty up to shelter all day. Dave and Dorothea up to their place. Bill and Billie cut down the hardwood trees out in the barnyard.

 

 

 

Sunday, October 21, 1979

 

A beautiful hot day. I did a very big wash. Dorothea and David up to their house. Betty and Kim up there and helped Dorothea. Bill and Billie cut some wood. Billie hauled it up. Carmen down to help her classmates work on their float, at Frank Pike’s barn. She is a dite better of her asthma. Kim still sick with that too. Walt and Zak got home at 5:30 from Walt’s brothers in Hartford Connecticut.

 

 

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