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, January 9, 2022

February 6 - 9, 1981

 

Friday, February 6, 1981

 

A nice mild day. I done regular work, cooked, washed windows. Swept etc. I got a chance to work on the puzzle in PM.

 

 

 

Saturday, February 7, 1981

 

A quite nice sunny day. I made a cake, baked my beans and washed floors. Done my dusting and some washing. In PM after I got my work all done I took bath and worked on the puzzle. Carmen and Betty up for breakfast. Kim didn’t come. Walt and Zak got home about 10 PM.

 

 

 

Sunday, February 8, 1981

 

Well it has been a nasty day. It ended up snowing. Got about 6 to 8 inches. Bill and Billie didn’t do much, I didn’t except work on the puzzle. Carmen came up for a little while and helped. Didn’t see Kim all weekend. I made a cake this morning.

 

 

 

Monday, February 9, 1981

 

A quite nice day, very sunny and pretty. A postcard picture from the snow we got the day and night before. I did a big washing and ironing. I made a custard, it came out very good with the boughten milk. Bill went plowing in forenoon. Billie still having stomach trouble. He went down and done Fern’s shoveling. Bill finished Carmen’s desk.

 

 

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