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 29, 2022

October 10 - 13, 1983

 

Monday, October 10, 1983 No school, Columbus Day.

 

I did a washing. I cleaned some of the kitchen and will finish it tomorrow. Bill worked on the shed with Betty and Walt. They got one side done. Billie did odd jobs. David and Dorothea came down and Dorothea cleaned my chair. It looks very nice. Kim didn’t go to her party last night. It’s too bad. I wouldn’t have made her stay home if I had been her. I wouldn’t have done that. Kim was very disappointed.  She would have cleaned her room but Betty Smith was asleep and she didn’t want to awaken her at night then she didn’t have time.

 

 

 

Tuesday, October 11, 1983

 

A partly cloudy day, some sun. It was on the cool side. I finished the kitchen, washed and ironed the curtains, put them up and did rest of the ironing. I went down to the Catholic Church where they were distributing free food, dry milk, cheese and butter. Billie to the Dr. in Portland. Boothby’s for his hand. They took some blood samples. Dorothea took him down.

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 12, 1983 cleaning done, Dorothea

 

Cloudy day. I canned some tomatoes. I did the breezeway. Got my cleaning all done. Dorothea began to work for Sid Johnson today. I hope she will be able to stay for the two weeks. It hasn’t been a very good day for cleaning house.

 

 

 

Thursday, October 13, 1983

 

Mostly cloudy. It cleared up some. Done up the work, went down with Betty then we went to Norway. The lumber didn’t come today. Billie out in the barn doing odd jobs. Bill don’t feel very good. Joy worked at Fern’s all day, got most of her work done for fall.

 

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