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, March 28, 2025

October 31 - November 2, 1992 Halloween


Saturday, October 31, 1992

 

A fair kind of a day. Very cold. It was quite sunny. Dorothea came, she cleaned up the house very thorough. She got the supper. Susan was here in p.m. David came for coffee. Carmen and Cameron came, also Brogan today. This was Halloween tonight. Brogan dressed up as a cat. She looked very good, her mother took her all-around trick-or-treating. Kimberly came and helped me with the trick-or-treating, a BIG help. I couldn’t have done it alone. It was nice having her here. Tom came in for a little while.

 

 

 

Sunday, November 1, 1992

 

A nice sunny day, very cold and windy. Walt up for coffee. Jason came and done the raking and mowing of leaves. Carmen came in for a minute at supper time. She got me a few things over to Ames for Christmas gifts. Brogan and Cameron had their pictures taken for Christmas today. I worked at the desk today. Also looked at a few catalogs.

 

 

 

Monday, November 2, 1992

 

Nice and sunny most all of the day. I had Cameron for a while today. Carmen, Brogan and Cameron came in late p.m. Carmen got the supper. She had a good one. Carmen took her (car) to the garage to get it fixed. She can’t get it till tomorrow.



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