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!

Monday, October 17, 2022

December 15 - 18, 1983

 

Thursday, December 15, 1983

 

A cloudy rainy day, not too much rain, but a cloudy foggy dreary day. I done up the work and got ready to go to town, but didn’t. Carmen went and done the shopping. Carmen got a job and I hope it will turn out to be a good job, she will like it, stay for a long time. Also she can do the work she likes and they like her. I finished wrapping. Billie and Carmen worked on Billie’s papers etc. David came down to visit all forenoon. Bill to the doctor. He is getting a little weak again.

 

 

 

Friday, December 16, 1983

 

A nice day at last. It seems so good it has rained so long. I did a big wash. I washed some windows and Billie wash them on the outside. Carmen called. She, Alan, Kim and Zak all to Portland tonight shopping. Billie busy, odds and end things. Bill is very good now except sort of pale. He still loses blood.

 

 

 

Saturday, December 17, 1983

 

Another very nice day. I done up my work. I washed floors, done a dite of cooking. Kim up this morning. I wrapped her gifts, a few other things. In PM Alan, Zak came with the tree. Betty and the girls came and got the tree in, decorated. It is a very pretty tree.

 

 

 

Sunday, December 18, 1983

 

A nice sunny day, on the cool side. I did a few odd and end things. Dorothea and David came. Dorothea did Billie’s papers. Betty, Kim and Zak went to Portland shopping. I went to town to Reny’s drawing for a Cabbage Patch Doll. Came home, did some things, got a steak supper. Our tree is very pretty.

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