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!

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

August 1 - 4, 1986

 

Friday, August 1, 1986

 

Well, a fair day, no rain. A dite of sunshine. I did my washing today. Changed beds. Watched TV soaps today. Billie didn’t get out. Bill read all day. Zack up and done chores.

 

 

 

Saturday, August 2, 1986

 

A partly cloudy day. I done regular work and the extras, cooked, floors, vacuumed etc. Zack called, Milan and Betty called in the evening. They had been out riding. Billie mowed the lawns today. Carlton and Phyllis and Brud down to Betty and Walt for supper. Zack still doing chores. Two weeks from today Kim will be home.

 

 

 

Sunday, August 3, 1986

 

Raining again when we got up. Late in pm it stopped and the clouds broke up and kind of nice weather. I worked at the desk all day. Betty and Walt and Zack on a trip up north. Had a good time but it rained where they was.

 

 

 

Monday, August 4, 1986

 

At last we got some sunshine. It seems so good not to have that rain pelting down all day. I did the washing. Carmen called to see me in the PM. Milan called. Betty, Walt and Zack all down to Betty and Milan’s for supper (spaghetti). They brought Billie some for his supper, he enjoyed it. It tasted so good. He was planning to go down there for supper. His foot pained him so he didn’t.

 


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