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!

Saturday, January 8, 2022

February 2 - 5, 1981 Carmen's Birthday

 

Monday, February 2, 1981 no school

 

This has been a day of all kinds of weather. It has been mild. I did a washing. It rained quite hard. No school. Betty, Kim and Zak went to New Hampshire to shop. The snow all went throughout the fields. It is what I like, is to see them bare. It is quite icy though. I worked on puzzle today. Bill home all day except calling at Dorothea’s in a.m.

 

 

 

Tuesday, February 3, 1981 Bill $305.30 Social Security, me $134.40

 

It has been sunny but on the cooler side. I went to town with Betty. She picked up Dorothea and they with Bill went to Norway. Bought some chairs, took the table over to be stripped. Also Betty got her cushions for the Morris chair. I worked on puzzle and made a meat pie for supper. Billie gone all afternoon. David called this morning on way home from work.

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 4, 1981

 

A nice day, very cold in the morning. Bill home all day. Billie gone all day off and on. I cleaned up the house. Cooked a fowl for us and 2 for Betty. Also made a blueberry pie from Betty, a lemon meringue for us. Betty called.

 

 

 

Thursday, February 5, 1981 Carmen Christie Boutilier Horton 18 years today, Carmen’s birthday supper

 

A quite nice day, temp went up to 25 during the day. I done up my work. Betty came, she went to town. Delores, Susan and I went with her. I came home, worked on puzzle and watched TV after I got lunch cleaned up etc. Then I got supper. A delicious baked ham and milk, lima beans, candied sweet potatoes, baked potatoes. Boughten home made bread and raspberry turnovers. It was good and Carmen liked it all so much. It was her birthday supper. Bill down to the Bell Tone in North Windham.

 

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