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, April 7, 2022

December 25 - 28, 1981 Christmas Day

 

Friday, December 25, 1981

 

At last a nice day. It was sunny and mild. We got up early, got ready to go down to Betty’s for a big day. It was enjoyable to see them unwrap all their gift. They had a lot of very nice and useful gifts. All was very pleased with what they got. A lot of clothes. We had a nice dinner. Turkey, roast pork, turnip, onions, shell beans, celery, stuffing, olives, celery, salad, all kinds of bread, pies, cookies, brownies etc. etc. Very nice day, beside us and the Hortons, Joy and family, Susan and family and Paula, Jeff, Dorothea and David and Fern were there for the dinner and afternoon. A very nice day.

 

 



 


 

 

 

 

Saturday, December 26, 1981

 

A nice sunny day in the a.m. then it clouded up. I done a wash and regular work. I didn’t have to cook. I did bake beans. I have been busy all day. In late PM we went up to Dorothea’s. She was cooking a fish chowder for supper on a Saturday night. They got a lot of nice gifts. Kim babysitting today.

 



 

 

 





 

Sunday, December 27, 1981 cloudy and snow

 

This is been a miserable cloudy day, at about dark it began to snow. A lot came during the evening and night. I didn’t do much except regular work and then I did some reading and got caught up on my reading. Billie and Howard down to Limerick to get at calf for Howard. Carmen’s asthma better. Kim babysitting.

 

 

 

Monday, December 28, 1981 Billie to doctors

 

Well it was snowy and cloudy this morning. It partially cleared off. I did the washing. Also ironing. Carmen came up and brought up the turkey. I made turkey pie for them, also had enough left over and sent some up to Dorothea. Betty took Billie to the doctors in Portland. They still could not do anything because the sugar is still too high. So he gave him some pills to get it down then he has to go back 29th of January. Zak and Dorothea went too. Bill in all day. He don’t get out only to plow snow. Bill plowed.

 

 




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