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 8, 2022

July 25 - 28, 1983

 

Monday, July 25, 1983

 

A cloudy forenoon but it cleared and I hung my clothes on the line. In PM. we got a lot of rain showers, my clothes got wet, but dried out again. Stewart Barnaby and his wife called, paid Bill $20 for things he done. Bill worked at Betty’s. Billie done some things around here, pulled up the old pea vines.

 

 

 

Tuesday, July 26, 1983

 

Another nice day, a nice breeze. I got up early, got breakfast, did the ironing. Regular work, defrosted the breezeway refrigerator. I wrote letter to Kimberly. Went down to Betty’s, she came up and brought her churn up. I’m going to get it ready for her to varnish. It was good to be down home. I love it. It is so pretty. I came home, we picked string beans. I made a chocolate pudding, cooked a chicken. Carmen and Zak came for supper. Betty and Walt down to Portland for dinner and to get Walt’s TV, a birthday gift.

 

 

 

Wednesday, July 27, 1983

 

A nice day, it got quite hot and humid in PM. I did a dite of washing. Bill worked at Betty’s on the little house. Betty over to Norway.

 

 


 

Thursday, July 28, 1983

 

I done up the regular work, got ready and went to town with Betty. Today I was kind of on the lame side today, but I made it okay. Bill worked at Betty’s. Dorothea called today. David hauled rest of his hay. Billie drove truck for him. Zak up here all forenoon, day mowing lawns.

 

 

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