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, June 2, 2024

November 13 - 16, 1989

 

Monday, November 13, 1989

 

Clear when we got up but it got cloudy, on the coolish side. I did the wash, made three apple pies. One for David, Walt and us. Carmen and Brogan came. They went to town to shop. Zak up for coffee and donut. Betty called, she and Kim to town.

 

 

 

Tuesday, November 14, 1989 Alice Boynton

 

A nice sunny day. I didn’t do much. A few odds and end jobs. Zak up for breakfast. I didn’t see him after that. I did my ironing. Carmen, Kim, Betty and Brogan here. They worked in the yard up to the Ridge House. Zack was going to saw some wood today but didn’t?? Carmen and Brogan called this evening. Alice Boynton died early this morning. She was a family friend.

 

 

 

Wednesday, November 15, 1989

 

I done up regular work. Got a fowl on to cook. I made a cheesecake. I expected Zack for supper but he didn’t come. I didn’t do very much work.

 

 

 

Thursday, November 16, 1989

 

I done up the work, did a wash. Watched some TV. Carmen, Brogan came also Zack here and had breakfast. Kim came and had a lunch also. Zack was supposed to move his truck today, Walt was going to help him but they didn’t. Carmen and Brogan here for supper. It rained very hard by showers at times, very heavy winds in some of the southern states. They had a lot of destruction from bad winds, many kids killed in some of the schools that was wrecked. It rained so hard all day and into the night. Cleared and moon out about midnight.

 

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