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, July 28, 2022

February 16 - 19, 1983

Wednesday, February 16, 1983

 

A very nice day. I done up the regular work. Had a steak supper. I went down to Betty’s for a little while in a.m. Billie and Heidi took their walk. Kim up after school, she looks good with her hair cut.

 

 

 

Thursday, February 17, 1983 BETTY LOUISE CROOK HORTON 40 years

 

Cloudy and snow mixed was some rain in forenoon then in turn to just snow. I done up the work and watched Days of Our Lives TV soaps then Betty came and we went to town. I came home, done a few odds and end jobs, watched shows in PM. Dorothea came after supper. Zak up after school. Kim to the hockey game. She went with Heather Webster for supper and then to the game with her. Bill to the doctors. He is very good and doing okay.

 

 

 

Friday, February 18, 1983

 

Cloudy and stormy. I got the windows all washed. Dorothea and David came. My windows got the smoked looked today. I did some other jobs, made a lemon meringue pie. Tonight after school Kim came up to stay overnight

 

 

 

Saturday, February 19, 1983

 

A nice day. I did regular work. Kim here all day, she rested up. She helped with the work. I had some very good beans, white for supper. Billie called over to Bob Thomas’s. Kim stayed until after supper.

 

 

 

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