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, January 1, 2023

September 9 - 12, 1984

 

Sunday, September 9, 1984

 

Another dry day. We need rain very bad. I done up the work. Got a puzzle started. Carmen and Kim came up. They went to town. Walt is okay now. He is going to work. Billie in and out. Bill riding around some.

 

 

 

Monday, September 10, 1984 no rain

 

It was fair when we got up and soon began to cloud up. Then after a while it got cleared off again. We was supposed to get rain but did not. I did my washing. Betty called, wanted to know if I wanted to go to Norway with she and Kim to shop for Zak’s birthday. I did. Joy went also. I came home, watched last two shows. Kim up tonight, we or she got a lot of the puzzle together.

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 11, 1984

 

A mild day 70 and above temperatures. At suppertime we had very heavy rain showers. I made a pie, did my ironing. Went for a ride. Bill and I up after apples and up over the hills, up Rices Road. Came back down in to South Waterford village. Carmen, Betty and Kim called during the day. Also McDades called and paid their milk bill. Dorothea to Portland for treatment again today.

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 12, 1984 Beef went today

 

The two beef went early this morning. They was two of the nicest ones that he ever raised. We killed our old hens today.

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