September 2011 – Darlene McKenzie

September 9, 2011

MySpace

Hello, it’s Darlene’s daughter again. Do you have or want a MySpace? I just got one yesterday. And I still can’t believe it! I have been wanting a MySpace for months. A lot of my friends have one and one of them have lots of people I know from school. But their not necessarily my friends. Maybe I know two of them pretty well. Just not the rest of the people. Right now I have about nine people as my friends on my MySpace. I don’t know a lot about it, but my sister is helping me with it. So if I have trouble with it I can just ask my sister about whatever I’m having trouble with. I really like having a MySpace because it’s a lot of fun. I’m so glad I have one!

September 1, 2011

Knick Knacks

My grandmother had a small collection of figurines that she kept in a little display case. I must have inherited the collecting gene from her side of the family.

Some of them were Hummels that she bought in Germany when Pop Pop was stationed there. They were little porcelain girls and boys doing everyday things like sharing an umbrella or playing on a tree swing.

She had another one that was a dark color and very heavy – I think it was made of brass – of three monkeys. She always used to say that the monkeys knew more about proper behavior than most people. They were demonstrating “See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil.”