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!

Saturday, November 5, 2022

February 18 - 21, 1984

 

Saturday, February 18, 1984

 

Well a kind of cloudy and showery day. I was busy all day cleaning up the house for tomorrow. I baked beans. Kim and Zak here for supper. Carmen and Alan called.

 

 

 

Sunday, February 19, 1984 Dinner for Betty’s birthday

 

A partly cloudy day. A lot of sun. I had a roast pork dinner and had Betty and family for her birthday. Hortons, Fern and Alan. All enjoyed it very much. They said they liked the dinner. Rolls were awful. Dorothea and David came in PM.

 

 

 

Monday, February 20, 1984

 

In early a.m. a little snow flurries. Later rain and clouds and about noon it cleared off and became sunny and beautiful. Kim and Zak came up and had lunch with us. I did the work and the washing. Watched TV soaps. No one worked, a holiday observation for General Washington’s Birthday. Carmen and Alan up fishing.

 

 

 

Tuesday, February 21, 1984 ZACK

 

A quite nice day, not too cold. I done up my work. I watched the programs. Later Betty called and said she and Kim was going to North Windham wanted to know if Bill and I would like to go, we did. Early this morning Betty took Zak to the CMGH in Lewiston for more operation. I hope they will be able to take care of his problem this time, only three months ago he had the operation. Since then he has been in NCM hospital because of a bad kidney infection. He was very sick. Kim has a cold. Walt picked Zak up late this PM.

 

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