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!

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

September 7 - 9, 1981 School Begins!

 

Monday, September 7, 1981

 

A very nice day. I done up the work, washed, made a cake. Got ready, we went up to the Horton’s camp lot on Stearns Lake. We had a nice cookout. Kids in the water. Joy and family and Fern and Dorothea beside us was there. It was a very nice cookout. Everyone liked it a lot.

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 8, 1981

 

A quite nice day. I done regular work. Watched programs and got some letters off to Esther and soap opera digest. Kim and Zak came up during the day and after supper. Billie been busy all day and Bill worked at Dorothea’s. They are fixing the utility room.

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 9, 1981 SCHOOL BEGAN

 

It was very cloudy when we got up this morning. It had rained very hard at about 3 to 4 AM. It cleared early in the morning. I got breakfast, washed up the dishes, made the beds. Bill took me down to see Zak and Kim leave for school on this first day of school. They both was dressed to kill, they look so nice in their new clothes. This is the first year Carmen wasn’t there. I missed her, but she is making progress now. I came home, got milk, dresses washed, done some washing. Betty came, we went up to get Dorothea and went to Sally Douglass’s and two other antique shops.

 





 

 

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