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, November 1, 2023

September 13 - 15, 1987

 






 

 


 

Sunday, September 13, 1987

 

Rained so hard all day which we needed. Also tonight.  We done up the work, got ready, went up to Twin Oaks camp for Zack’s 18th birthday which is the 15th. He got a lot of nice and useful gifts, money for his truck. He told us about his trip yesterday on the US Kennedy. Very interesting. Had the fire going in the camp, it was very nice. Hortons, Boulter, Willette’s, Thomases and Crooks were there. Kim made sloppy Joe’s, they were delicious. Debbie Martin Wolff made the very pretty cake.

 

 

 

Monday, September 14, 1987

 

After three days of cloudy rainy weather it cleared and was nice and sunny all day. Been busy. Carmen came. She cleaned, went to town. Well today Zack is traveling the bus for a month. He went with Walt this morning. I washed and ironed. Brogan was cute all day. Very tired. Betty to Windham and got some things. She brought home sandwiches for lunch. Kim came up, also she had some very nice pictures that were taken in Indonesia while she was over there. Billie been busy all day. Zack put up the fence post tonight.



 

 

 

Tuesday, September 15, 1987 ZACK 18 years old today

 

This is been a very nice day. Carmen came over and worked at Betty’s. She put the rest of the fence up. Also she worked in the garden, picked rest of the vegetables etc. and she and Betty and Carmen also cleaned Zack’s apartment. Tonight we had a steak supper for his 18th birthday.

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