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, February 12, 2025

May 27 - 28, 1992 Turkey Tragedy -Almost

 

Wednesday, May 27, 1992

 

A cloudy day. No rain in p.m. or off and on all day. There was sunshine. I cleaned the silverware today. Carmen called in after she got Bro from school she came. Dorothea and Dave came about 1 PM. They cleaned the living room rug. It looks good. Carmen came and got supper. She is in some pain, tired. Dorothea cleaned up the house today. This is Brogan’s last day of school.

 

 

 

Thursday, May 28, 1992

 

We had some thundershowers in p.m. It was a partly fair day. In p.m. it clouded up. We got rain and heavy thundershowers. Betty and Carmen to Lewiston and done some work over there. But we got a shower and they were worried about the ducks so they hurried for home. They called me and asked me to call people to get the turkeys in. I got Dorothea and she came right down. But she hadn’t been there very long and Betty and Carmen came. They had several dead turkeys. They went right to work on them with the help of heat lights and towels. They brought them back to life.

 






 

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