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 30, 2022

March 22 - 25, 1982

 

Monday, March 22, 1982 Billie 52 years, Jersey calf went today for veal

 

A beautiful looking morning when we got up. Everything was a solid WHITE. It was a winter wonderland as they call it. Well during forenoon the sun melted from the trees and power lines. Snow melted some in the roads, but it got cloudy and didn’t melt much after that. I got my washing done about 1 PM. Reason why so late because power was off for two hours in the morning. Also I made a cake, prepared salad. Got my work all done. Fern came up in early PM for Billie’s birthday supper. Also in evening Betty, Walt, Kim, Zak came, later Carmen and all her nine or 10 friends, all enjoyed the party. Joy and Laurie was here too. Billie got nice useful gifts, was very pleased.

 

 

 

Tuesday, March 23, 1982

 

A beautiful mild day and temps high so the snow melted alot. Carmen and friends gone skiing again. They had a good time skiing. Carmen called in evening. She is so awful tire. I did the ironing. Swept up the house etc.

 

 

 

 Wednesday, March 24, 1982 KIMBERLEY

 

Bill to the doctors. His eye is bad, the bulging one. He has got to go to Portland for an appointment to have it operated on and checked. I went down to Betty’s. Carmen applied for a job at the NCM hospital for the summer. I hope she gets it. She came up for supper tonight, we had barbecued chicken. Kim called after school. She was elected vice Pres. of the AFS. I am so pleased about this. She too is excited about it and really pleased.

 

 

 

Thursday, March 25, 1982

 

A nice sunny very mild day. Foggy when we got up. It cleared and a very nice mild sunny day. Betty took us to town today. Carmen over to Fryeburg with Billie but not any sawdust anymore.

 

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