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, November 7, 2022

February 26 - 29, 1984 Aunt Fern Fell

Sunday, February 26, 1984

 

A nice day but it was cooler and March winds were blowing. Dorothea and David called. Joy came for milk and visited. Walt called and brought some honey dipped donuts, they were very good. I made custard, mac & cheese. Betty and Walt out this PM. Zak came in evening a minute.

 

 

 

Monday, February 27, 1984

 

I did the washing and ironing. Also this week’s ironing. I made a pudding. I worked on the puzzle today. This is been a beautiful day, supposed to snow tomorrow.

 

 

 

Tuesday, February 28, 1984

 

Well it began to snow early this morning. It snowed quite hard. It rained and sleet in PM. I done my regular work then I worked on the puzzle. Betty called. Carmen home sick today, she went to see the Dr. at the hospital last night.

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 29, 1984 Fern fell

 

I wrote to Esther today. Listened to the primary elections from New Hampshire this morning. I done regular work, worked on puzzle. It has been flurries and some rain and sleet today. Alan called a minute. Betty Smith called tonight. Tonight Betty and Dorothea down to Fern’s to see how she was after she fell this PM and to help her get to bed. She had a bad fall about 1 PM.

 

 

 

Well people in and out of the hospital this month and so was Tara. She had a operation for the heat spots. She had quite a head gear on for about a week to keep her from lapping and tearing the stitches. I got new glasses. Fern up for a visit and spent the day Valentine’s Day. Got nice gifts. Zak operated on in the CMG hospital. Fern fell and hurt her quite bad and had to go to hospital.

 

 

 

 

 

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