Dearly Appliance Departed

After many years of faithful service, I am saddened to announce that the Sweda Multi-Blend 2000 stick blender has finally bitten the dust. Given to me by my paternal grandmother, who had no use for it within her world of making magic emerge from cheap aluminum pots juggled on cheap gas stoves, the Sweda Multi-Blend 2000 did not have much use in my world save blending to smooth perfection the base of tomato ragus so that all possible traces of the originaly vegetality of the tomato were removed to my daughter’s satisfaction. The Sweda Multi-Blend 2000 is survived by my maternal grandmother’s Oster Kitchen Center who will take upon it the duties of blending (as well as food processing, meat grinding, batter mixing, bread kneading, ice chipping, and a host of other assortments I have never quite figured out and may actually be devices left over from the Inquisition for all I know). Thank you, Sweda Multi-Blend 2000, for staying with us so long. May you find rest in that great small appliance paradise that we hope awaits all such little good things.