“WHAT! You Bought a $400 blender?!!!!”

That’s a direct quote from my frugal yet prosperous sister. The year is 1997, I have about fifty cents to my name but I am anxiously awaiting my new (refurbished) Vitamix. Im post divorce, depressed, and able to keep anything but smoothies down due to stress.

Enter the VitaMIx. I know people who have ‘em, they are all over The Farm, I’ve used em for years, so I decide to take the plunge.

So I am outside gardening, weeding, and talking to my sister Blythe on the phone and I see a BOX that the mail carrier had shoved in a hedge. WHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEE, I am so jazzed I cant even speak, just whooping and making a bunch of noise, Blythe’s asking me what’s wrong, but I mostly don’t hear it because I am trying to rip into the box, and finally it penetrates that she is concerned when I hear, “Are you ok, did you see a snake?”

Thats some passion, right?

So I tell her I bought a VitaMix and she is APPALLED, “What, you bought a $400 blender?” I know my sister and there is no way I could explain this to her satisfaction, so I tell her its a good idea for me and just to wait and see.

Since then I have used it daily, and for a brief time Blythe and I lived together, and guess what Slick Rick took with her when she moved? So then who had to buy another $400 blender. Me.

What Am I going to use the VitaMIx for today? I will make a smoothie with some fruit, kefir, frozen berries, Protein plus from Young Living, and what ever else calls to me.

Later I am going to use it to make yogurt: heat up a couple of gallons of milk (1/3 gallon at at time in the VitaMix) , then i will add yogurt to them, place in 2 one gallon glass jars,slip those into the dehydrator with a rubberbanded kitchen towel over the mouth of the jars, set the excalibur timer for 12 hours at 110 degrees, yehaw, we got yogurt.

I might decide to live on the edge and add some powdered milk, it’s supposed to make yogurt mad creamy, and we have some left over from IKE.

And what do I do with all this yogurt? I feed to the dog and my mom!

Supah Love,

rowan