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, November 28, 2021

August 31 - September 3, 1980 School Begins

 

Sunday, August 31, 1980

 

Partly cloudy day. I got up about 7. Got the breakfast. David called, had coffee, made a good visit. After he went down, done up rest of the work. Billie done chores and then he went up to David’s. They did fencing. About noon Bill went down and got Fern and Esther. They came up for the afternoon and for supper. Betty’s folks all went to see Flicka. Carmen rode her. Kim and Zak rode some horses also. They had a good time.

 

 

 

Monday, September 1, 1980 HOT

 

A very hot humid day. I did a wash. Picked over those shell beans, canned a pint jar, watched TV programs in PM. Fern and Esther over to Carlton and Phyllis’s for afternoon and evening. Betty and kids gone all day. Billie and David finished the fencing.

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 2, 1980 HOTTER, Zak had a pony

 

Another very hot day. Carmen came up, we canned her tomatoes. Today Zak had a nice pony come. I went down to see it. I did a very big ironing. Betty and girls gone to Norway.


 

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 3, 1980 Social Security checks $305.30, $134.40, Jersey bred, SCHOOL BEGAN Carmen: Senior, Kim: freshman, Zak: grade 5

 

This is been a very nice day. School started again. I went down to see them all dressed up in their new clothes, stayed until after the buses went. They all look so nice, very pretty clothes. Betty, Bill and I looked the garden all over, down in pasture, just walking around. It was a beautiful morning. The humidity went out with the awful shower we had last night. The lightning was so unusual. It was a bad shower, wind. It lasted long time too. Dorothea’s company went today. Kim began high school, Carmen in her last year of high school. Zak last year of elementary school.

 







 

 

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