Jesus Loves You

This is part of my mother's extensive collection of Jesus paraphernalia. I can't remember what the caption says--maybe Jesus Christ is risen? or Jesus Christ is King? He sits on my mother's desk, next to the monkey candlestick. 

Strawberry Hick

Sorry for the delay in posting. My mom is in Korea for the next two weeks, so I plan to do some recon at her house and should have some more good shit to post. But for now, here's a gift she bought for my daughter Lucy when she was first born. It came without tags, so I assume it came from the Army.

According to the care label, this seems to be a promotional item from Del Monte and is part of their "Country Yumkin" line. This is Country Strawberry, and he's wearing a cowboy hat and has a snaggle tooth and googly eyes. He scares the shit out of me, partly because I think he looks like a decapitated head. He doesn't seem to bother Lucy, though.

A Tale of Two Crock Pots

My mother is a Crock Pot fanatic. I don't really understand why, since she rarely makes anything in them--no pot roasts, no braises, no stews. The only time she ever used a Crock Pot while I was growing up was to boil Chinese herbs, which she would then force feed us. It was not a good memory. Anyway, over the years, she has collected so many Crock Pots from the Army that she's taken to giving them away to my sister and me. She gave me the Crock Pot above sometime last year. It's the "Crock Watcher" model, and I would date it to around 1975, based on the brown and orange color scheme. A  few months ago, she decided I could use an upgrade. Et voila:

I've been upgraded from a 1975 Crock Pot to, whaddaya think? a 1985 model? 1990?