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!

Monday, September 2, 2024

October 12 - 14, 1990 Brogan's Birthday and Pony

 

Friday, October 12, 1990 PONY CAME TONIGHT

 

Well we saw sunshine today after six days of rain, drizzle and fog. Carmen and Betty getting ready for the horses. Carmen and Betty cleaned my house. Carmen to town to do the shopping. Today about 2:30 we saw sunshine which was a pleasant surprise to everyone. Well tonight the pony (Misty) came. They delivered her, got here about 9:10 PM. Brogan was pleases. Betty has a lot of company this evening. John and Raye Crook, Dorothea, Joy, Carmen and Brogan.

 


 

 

Saturday, October 13, 1990 Rain Rain Rain Rain

 

This has been a very miserable day. I’ll be so glad when it clears. Today I made roles and a cake. Betty invited us down for supper. (Baked beans) to join them, Jack Crook, and wife Raye, Dorothea and David, Brogan and Carmen. A nice supper, also in evening we had Jack, Sylvia up to meet these cousins of theirs. Joy was there, we had a nice visit.

 








 

 

Sunday, October 14, 1990 Brogan A Willette Horton

 

Today A VERY VERY VERY NICE SUNNY day after seven days of rain. It has been awful. But it was a beautiful beautiful day. How pleased everyone was for such a nice day. Well about 1 PM the family and friends called at Carmen’s for Brogan’s birthday party. It was very very nice. She had a lot of very nice gifts. She had the honor of having her second cousin and his wife John Crook III and her local cousins, grandparents, aunts. Aunt Kim made a very pretty turtle cake

 



 

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