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, September 15, 2022

August 21 - 24, 1983 Annual Lobster Feast

 

Sunday, August 21, 1983

 

A nice day except very windy most of the time. I got up about 7:30. Made the beds then I got breakfast and done up the dishes. Made two blueberry pies. Done up the rest of the work, got ready and went up to camp about 2:30. Fern entertained at a feed today. Very nice.



 

 

 

 

Monday, August 22, 1983 cloudy and rain

 

Well it rained about all day. I washed, we picked beans and corn before it rained. Billie in and out. Bill went fishing. Zak up a little while.

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 23, 1983

 

A very nice sunny day. A slight breeze, not all too hot. I been busy all day doing odd jobs. In PM I got a baked ham dinner and had Kim up. Shell beans, corn, cukes, potato, good baked ham and milk and blueberry biscuits and a chocolate whipped cream pie. Betty up today, she got her hair done, perm. Zak painted his house.

 

 

 

Wednesday, August 24, 1983

 

A most beautiful day. Sunny and warm. I done up regular work, ironed. We picked beans from the garden. Also Billie finished the raspberry bushes and picked a lot from garden and worked in it. Bill didn’t do much, he went down to Betty’s a while. Betty and Kim called, they went over to the camp and got it ready for new tenants. Kim to work tonight.

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