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, March 26, 2022

November 10 - 13, 1981

 

Tuesday, November 10, 1981

 

A quite nice day. Some cloudiness in forenoon, but it cleared. Bill and Billie hauled wood. David helped them. Then the trailer broke, they came up and fixed that then went back in PM and hauled some more. I went over to Marian Nevells with Betty. She took two chairs over to be recaned. Zak came home sick at noon. I sent my orders today, a card to Milan and Betty yesterday.

 

 

 

Wednesday, November 11, 1981 NO WORK NO SCHOOL

 

It was raining when we got up. It cleared and a nice day. No school, no work, no mail.

 

 

 

Thursday, November 12, 1981 Very cold this morning

 

A quite cold day. I got the work done up and went to town. Came home, made a beef soup for supper. I watched the soaps in PM.

 

 

 

Friday, November 13, 1981 Another cold morning

 

A nice day. I done up my work. Cooked, washed windows, washed the clothes. Busy all day. Bill worked on Walt’s truck. Billie doing odd and end jobs. Cleaning up etc.

 

 

 

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