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, March 24, 2022

November 2 - 5, 1981

 

Monday, November 2, 1981

 

A beautiful day. I did a big wash. Made a chocolate pie, brownies, cooked a hen or fowl for supper. I am having Kim up for supper. I did a very big ironing. It was very hot in PM temperatures.

 

 

 

Tuesday, November 3, 1981 $339.30 + $149.20 = $488.50

 

A beautiful day. I done up my work. Got ready, went to Norway with Betty. Fern went too. Then we got some Italian sandwiches and bakery goodies. I had a delicious lunch. Billie down to Betty’s for Italian spaghetti supper, Fern there too.

 

 

 

Wednesday, November 4, 1981

 

Well so far this week we have had a perfect week weatherwise. Sunny and mild. Hope it lasts through Friday and Saturday. Homecoming weekend. Betty called for a little while. I sent out the bills today.

 

 

 

Thursday, November 5, 1981

 

A nice sunny day. Betty took Delores and I to town, she went to Norway to get the cat first. Bill and Billie got rest of the wood cut and began hauling it out. I watched some programs this PM. Man worked on Walt’s barn roof today.

 

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