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, April 22, 2023

October 13 - 15, 1985 Moving the Horses to Harrison

 

Sunday, October 13, 1985

 

Cloudy and rainy. Walt up for coffee. Bill got pills $29.99. I done regular work. Billie up to Dave’s. Walt, Zack and Betty over to the kids house.

 

 

 

Monday, October 14, 1985 ANGEL AND FLICKA,  EBONY AND DUCHESS

 

Well it didn’t rain but it was cloudy all day. Well early at 6:30 Carmen and Betty saddled up Angel and Flicka to go to their new home. The weather want too bad. It was cloudy. No rain, they went down Route 117 over to North Bridgton, on to Harrison up through the town, up over Dawes Hill. Bypassed the Ridge then down Haskell Hill to Bolsters Mills. At last they made it at about 9:30. What a relief it was to get there. Their rears was lame and sore. Horses were tired. They put them into the pasture and finished the stalls. Billie, Milan and Carmen went and got hay, grain and bedding, later in PM they got them in for first time no problem. Bill, Billie, Milan, Betty, Erica, Eddie and Cassie all was there. When we got home Zack and Betty brought Ebony and Duchess up into this pasture. They miss each other. Dottie Moulton found dead in bed this morning.

 



 

 

Tuesday, October 15, 1985 HEAVY RAIN

 

Today is a very rainy day. All day, awful heavy. I hope he will get water in the wells now. I washed, ironed, watched TV in PM. Bill over to Carmen’s. Billie up to see how David was. He is sore and a burning feeling.

 

 

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