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, April 2, 2022

December 7 - 10, 1981

Monday, December 7, 1981 40 years ago today the attack on Pearl Harbor

 

Not a very good day. Dorothea and Bill took the car down to get it checked over and the winter tires put on. What a mess of snow from the bad storm of yesterday. Blizzard all day yesterday. Billie got stuck out here in the yard. I got my washing done.

 

 

 

Tuesday, December 8, 1981

 

I did the ironing. Rest of the work. I made a cake. Plowed snow, a lot of it.

 

 

 

Wednesday, December 9, 1981

 

A fair day. I done up the work. Made a lemon meringue pie, cake. Well Betty took Billie to the doctors in Portland today. The doctors said he has problems. First he has to get his sugar count down. So he is cut out his bad eating habits.

 

 

 

Thursday, December 10, 1981

 

Well it has been cloudy all day. It wasn’t too cold. Dorothea took Delores, Susan and me to town. I came home, done a lot of odd jobs. Billie cleaned the car and truck today. Bill went to Portland with Dorothea this PM. I went to the LRHS Christmas concert, it was very good. Kathy was in it.

 

 

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