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!

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

October 25 - 28, 1981


Fall at Twin Oaks

 

 

Sunday, October 25, 1981 FREEZE, STANDARD TIME

 

Well it was sunny in a.m. and most of PM. I got up at 6:30ST. I got the breakfast, done up the work. Bill up to the cottage with Betty and Walt and Zak. They got the outbuilding all up. Put the tar paper on the roof and painted at. Then they got the stove set up and a fire in it. Kim came up here for a visit. I was glad to see her. I don’t see her very often. Billie worked all day outside doing odd jobs. Called at Fern’s in PM. A very bad frost and a good freeze when we got up this morning. Quite cold all day.

 

 

 

Monday, October 26, 1981

 

Well it has been cloudy and rain. I did my washing then I went down to Betty’s for a short time. I came home, watched the TV soaps. Betty cleaned Kim and Carmen’s bedrooms.

 

 

 

Tuesday, October 27, 1981

 

Well this is been a very heavy rainy day. I got up this a.m., got a corn beef to cooking and prepared the vegetables then I cleaned my living room. We had Fern up for the boiled dinner supper. It was very good. She liked it very much. It is supposed to clear off tomorrow. I also did my ironing, washed the curtains, cleaning rags after supper. Betty did Zak’s room and finished her upstairs.

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 28, 1981

 

It was cloudy and some rain showers in a.m. and early PM it kind of broke away. Late in PM it became very cold and some wind. I done a lot of odds and end jobs today. Bill got his haircut then in PM up to the camp. Billie finished up all the outside chores then he cleaned the lawn mowers and put them away for the winter. Betty cleaned her bedroom.

 

 

 

 

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