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, April 25, 2025

February 8 - 11, 1993

 

Monday, February 8, 1993

 

I got up early. Got my regular work done and did the washing. I’ve done some reading. Got the paper read. Tom and Kim walked up and made us a visit which was good. Don’t see them very often. Betty came in later in p.m., got the supper started. We had a good one. Walt didn’t come. He didn’t feel very good. It has been a nice sunny day. Not too cold.

 

 

 

Tuesday, February 9, 1993

 

Nice and sunny, not too cold. Billie to the doctors for blood checkup. I done wash, did up the work. David came for coffee. Dorothea came, took Billie to the doctors. Betty came, cleaned up the house, get the supper. She is having back trouble. Walt sick today. A very nice day.

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 10, 1993

 

Sunny early, but it got cloudy and was cloudy rest of the day. I made out the store list. Carmen came and went shopping. Arnold took care of Cameron and Brogan after she got home from school. Carmen made a pea soup for supper. Cameron was so cute and good. Betty Smith had a bad spell today, it worries us to have her alone there and not feeling too good.

 

 

 

Thursday, February 11, 1993

 

A quite nice day. Mostly sunny, not quite as warm. Sunny. Dorothea came and shampooed my hair and put a rinse on it. I got a lot of the papers read today. Carmen and Arnold had to work tonight so they left the kids at Betty’s. She took them home early and put them to bed. It came over the scanner that a man had a blast at the hospital. He grabbed a chair and started to throw it at Carmen. She called the police. Tonight Kim got our supper, a very good one, meatloaf, squash etc. She and Tom did the dishes. Betty didn’t feel very good today.

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