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!

Friday, September 29, 2023

May 15 - 18, 1987

Friday, May 15, 1987

 

Cloudy and rain. They came to work on the barn roof at Hortons, but the rain came so they had to stop. Carmen came, she had to go to Raymond and take a sample of water down so she is getting the groceries. Billie up to Dorothea’s. Fern was having a lot of pain. Milan went down and got some pills. They came and spread the fertilizer at Betty’s.

 

 

 

Saturday , May 16, 1987

 

A beautiful day. I done up the work, had some very good beans for supper. Low’s Champions. Milan raised them in his garden. Billie busy all day, also Zack doing all his mowing.

 

 

 

Sunday, May 17, 1987

 

A mostly cloudy day. I done up the work. Walt up for coffee. I wrote to Esther and cleaned D greens. Carmen got us our supper. Very nice of her. A nice supper. Billie done the lawns again.

 

 

 

Monday, May 18, 1987 Run Cement

 

Cloudy in a.m. I got up early, got breakfast, done up my work. Got ready to go down to Betty’s. Betty Smith and I helped Betty do her cupboards, china closets etc. in dining room. Then we went over to Carmen’s. They run the cement for the cellar walls. Had a good mess of dandelion greens for supper. Very good. Zack called after school. It cleared nice in PM. Billie and Milan over to Norway and got garden seed etc. for the gardens.

 

 

 

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