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!

Monday, March 7, 2022

August 30 - September 2, 1981 Debbie and Jay have a Girl!!! Joy's first Grandchild!

Sunday, August 30, 1981

 

A quite nice day. I didn’t get up very early. So I was late about getting my work done up.

 

 

 

Monday, August 31, 1981

 

It has been a dreary day. I done my wash, dried them in the dryer. I canned the tomatoes, cooked a pot roast. Bill and Betty took the Barnaby’s to the airport. Came home here, all had breakfast here.

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 1, 1981 DEBBIE & JAY had a girl

 

Another cloudy dreary day. I cooked a chicken dinner and had Kim up. I also did a dite of cooking. Saltman came with a load of boats, the big bus for Bill to work on. He has worked on them today. Today Debbie and Jay had a little girl born. Betty, Dorothea took Joy and Debbie down to the MM Center in Portland, they left about midnight last night and the baby didn’t come until 2 PM today.

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 2, 1981

 

Kim enjoyed her supper and stayed here last night. She left to go home at about 4 PM. Betty been gone all day. Bill still working on the boats etc. Billie mowed Walt’s grass in the pasture. I’m very glad Kim came up.

 

 

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