Well now I feel like an idiot!! Today I had one of my blonde moments. I was making a blender concoction and put in too large of ice cubes. I was using an older blender which did not have the sharpest blades to chop the ice. After several attempts of shaking it to dislodge the ice cubes from the blades I decided to try another approach. I took out a small wooden spoon with the idea of sticking it down between the blades to dislodge the ice. The blender was off when I tried the first time. I turned on the blender. Nothing was moving. I opened the lid and looked inside. Nothing was moving. For whatever brain farted idea I decided to put the small wooden spoons handle down into my drink to dry to dislodge the ice. Come to find out the blades were moving a little. The result was my blender concoction exploded all over me, the blender, the floor, the counter top, and I think it got a cat. Light orange cold iced thickened liquid all over the place. The cat ran off and probably will never go near the counter top again. After wiping the cold liquid out of my right eye I cleaned up my mess. The cat will need to bathe on his own because I did not know where he ran off to. Afterwards I stood there at the counter top thinking what a brainless plan. What the hell was I thinking?? After changing my clothes I poured my drink into a glass. Needless to say the glass was half empty…just like my brain at the time. Memo…buy new blender as soon as possible if I am going to make anymore of these during the summer.