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!

Thursday, February 24, 2022

July 21 - 23, 1981

Tuesday, July 21, 1981

 

It rained so awful hard all night. It did early this morning too. Then it cleared and it was a nice day. I didn’t do too much.

 

 

 

Wednesday, July 22, 1981

 

A nice day. I done up the work. I walked down around the field with Heidi. Betty and Carmen up in top of the barn. Betty came down, went out, picked the peas. I had some for supper, they were so good.

 


The Vision Quest traveling group camped up on route 117 at the new lumber mill lot. We went up to see them. It was very nice and interesting. They are kind of delinquents and 14 to 18 years. They called this a reforming and training mission. It does work about 75% to the good. Their headquarters are in Pennsylvania.

 

 

 

Thursday, July 23, 1981 HAY MOWED

 

This is been a very nice sunny westerly breeze. Billie mowed Walt’s hay. I’m so glad, it is so late and the hay is gone by some. I went shopping with Dorothea. I done my ironing early. I came home, Fern here all day. Bill worked up to the camp. Also Cindy and Kim. Walt and Zak up and left home at 4 AM to go to visit his aunt and sister. Fern and I rode up to the camp with Betty to get the kids. Fern here all day.

 

 

 

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