We are back from our Saturday morning trip out.
We took Mrs. Fezziwig to the dealer to get a bath, so she would not be a dirty girl.
Then we went to a big farmers market and from there, to Bed Bath and Beyond to buy a new blender.
I have a blender story from last night.
Since we have been both heavily back into WW, we have been using WW Smoothie mix to have a smoothie every night. Typically I add some ice and frozen fruit. It comes out to about 1 point for each of us, or about 2 points for the entire blender jar.
We had a Waring blender that we got in around 1991, so we've had it for years. It was one of the models with a sealed bottom. You know, the blades were integrated and could not be removed from the blender jar.
Last night, it was leaking fiercely out of the bottom with frozen smoothie going everywhere, oozing out all over the counter. I did manage to salvage about half a glass for each of us. Vanilla-Banana-Mango and it was great.
My half came out of what was left in the blender.
It was odd, because there was grit in my smoothie. I thought is was bits of ice that had not been blended, that is until I got to the bottom of the glass, and realized that the bits had not been ice, but bits of glass.
It was not sharp shards but little pieces more like sand (the blender jar is rather heavy glass).
I did not tell Sukie about it last night, but did while we were driving around today. He promptly proceeded to freak out in the car.
"You fed me broken glass?!?"
I looked at him and said, "You know, you can never get too much silica in your diet."
I told him to look on the bright side. To my knowledge, glass is zero points.
At Bed Bath and Beyond, when trying to choose a blender, Sukie asked the store clerk, which blender jar tasted best.
We bought a Krups, with powerful motor and the blades unscrew and remove for cleaning.
If Sukie doesn't watch out, I'm going to put a Brillo pad in his next smoothie. I suspect he needs more iron in his diet.
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