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!

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

July 17- 20, 1981

 

Glad to be home!

Friday, July 17, 1981

 

A very nice sunny day. I washed, packed away clothes. Went down to Betty’s. Bill and Carmen glad to get home. Tonight we went to a baby shower at Joy’s for Debbie.

 

 

 

Saturday, July 18, 1981

 

Partly cloudy day mostly sunny in the morning. I changed beds. Cleaned up the house. Made rolls, baked beans and two Apple pies. Bill didn’t do much, he went up to Dorothea’s. Billie trimmed his pasture and Walt’s. Weldon called. Kim, Zak and Carmen up in PM. Carmen worked with Dorothea and Joy at the cottages today.

 

 

 

Sunday, July 19, 1981

 

Cloudy some, in PM it was cleared. Cleared mostly in PM. I done up regular work then we picked some string beans. Fern came up in PM, here for supper. Betty’s folks up to the camp lot most of the day.

 

 

 

Monday, July 20, 1981 Walt’s birthday

 

This is been a very rainy day, misty toward night, the rain came down hard all evening, it has rained. I done up regular work then I got supper. Didn’t do much. Betty and kids called. Dorothea came, she and I went over to Susan’s to see about the dog and cats. One cat hurt her foot. Bill or Billie didn’t do much either. Betty and kids called with pizza, lobster rolls and meatball roll. They and Bill had lunch here.

 

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