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!

Sunday, December 25, 2022

August 17 - 18, 1984 Praying for Lobster


 

Friday, August 17, 1984

 

Well, at last the humidity is gone and a nice clear sunny day. I defrosted refrigerator, did a washing after I changed the beds.

 

 

 

Saturday, August 18, 1984 Guernsey cow went and a black heifer came

 

A beautiful day, clear and very comfortable. I got up early, done up the work. Bill down town. Milan called. Well, this morning Billie sold his Guernsey cow to be slaughtered and bought a part Jersey and Holstein heifer from Clyde Rowe. I washed floors, took a bath. We waited to hear from Carmen. Finally she came and we had the big lobster feed at Fern’s. Those who didn’t like lobsters had steak. A good feed, everyone was so grateful to Fern and she felt better by people being around with her.

 


Love this photo of Poppa praying for more lobster!

 

 

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