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, October 29, 2021

May 7 - 9, 1980 Milan's Request

 


Wednesday, May 7, 1980 TEETH

 

Today Betty took me to the dentist and I had the impressions taken. What a mess that was. It is so gagging. Gone all forenoon and then we stopped at Woolworth’s and I got a couple things at that store than came home. Got home about 2. I watched rest of my programs. Got supper. Dorothea called in evening. Bill up to Dorothea’s in a.m. Billie up to New Hampshire with Bob Thomas.

 

 

 

Thursday, May 8, 1980

 

Gee, this miserable weather is awful. I hate it. I done my work. In forenoon made macaroni and cheese for Betty’s supper and ours. In PM I watched programs. Bill up to Dorothea’s in forenoon working. Billie to town and done the shopping. In PM he went looking for a job. Betty to New Hampshire to the natural food store. Susan went too. Dorothea took Delores to town, did a dite of shopping herself. She called here late in PM. Bill came home from Dorothea’s at noon, after dinner he went down to Barnaby’s. If it would clear off I would clean, this miserable weather is awful. I picked over some clothes today to begin the cleaning.

 

 

 

Friday, May 9, 1980 Kim away to a ballgame, began to clean

 

Well we had a little of all kinds of weather today. Cloudy in a.m. and then a little rain. About 4 PM it cleared off. I cleaned the radiators, closets and bureaus in the 2 bedrooms today. I’m glad that is done. Well it is Friday and I started cleaning. I don’t like starting anything on Friday. Well maybe I did a dite yesterday, enough to say I started. Kim went to the ballgame at Scarborough. They played against Scarborough Junior High School. She is manager. She likes it very much. Bill and I went down to Lake Region High School to pick her up. She had a good time. Betty and Walt out for supper to celebrate finishing her cleaning, papering and painting.

 

 

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