Sweet Serendipity, thy name is Strawberry.

It's been a crazy weekend but we wanted to post and remind you,
the formidable blog people, that we exist. We begin with some
items from the mighty Motherscratcher, who sent us some packs

we had fun opening

recently--they made us very happy. We thought we were up to
snuff on Players Talking on Phones, often a subset of old
technology, but we'd never seen this here Ron Karkovice
blabbercard:

Yes, Mr. Scratcher sent cards especially related to our categories
along with those packs. This card is excellent in part because of the
endless complexities involved with Mr. K's left arm, from wrist tape
on substantial arm hair, to gloves, to styrofoam and beyond.
Whereas below we see young, freshfaced Bernie Williams scrinching
thick eyebrows around a gigantic eyepiece, hindered by neither the
sunglasses perched on his cap brim nor the little cartoon trying to
tickle him. How does that eyepiece lead to the viewer? Seems kind
of roundabout:

If this isn't old enough technology, then check out thenon-baseball
meaning of 'slide':

In addition to cards such as the above, we received this:

Yes. A Micah auto. With his signature Biblical inscription,
Phillippians 4:13, "I can do everything through him who gives
me strength." That is also what Tim Tebow wears on his cheeks

instead of eyeblack, but that's quite another post. For instance, it
would be a post if we ever had a lucid thought about football
players. Back to Micah:

It's always great when the photo on the back is different than the
photo on the front of the baseball card. And what's better than this
earnest expression?:

Also, do you remember that assortment of packs we showed you
above? We'll wait while you scroll back to remind yourself. Ok. Are
you ready? Lucy found this Darryl Strawberry card in one of the O
Pee Chee packs! A Darryl card she didn't have.

Thank you, Motherscratcher, for the wonderful fun this package
proved to be. Really great! If that wasn't enough, last week we also
received something from zman. Lucy displays it, actual size:

One of our baseball cards escaped and looked up at its
awesomeness:

The amount of time, and, eventually, dynamite that it took to
remove the item from its container was daunting.

Can you guess what was inside?