Liquid Greens Detox Blend and Occupied Bathrooms

As many of you probably remember, the Poolboy and I after listing our house last year, changed our minds and decided not to sell.

Even though the house we were serious about had two kitchens, one upstairs, and one down that I was planning to turn into a farm style baking and canning room, we were on the verge of a recession and my reliable old spidey senses were telling me the move would not be prudent.

So we stayed put in our comfortable, albeit small, cottage style home, and citing the mantra "Small is the new Big," continued to enjoy the sense of togetherness one can't help but feel living in close quarters.

And when I speak of togetherness, let me go on record by explaining that it isn't just between myself, the Poolboy, TH and our pets.

No.

By togetherness I mean myself, the Poolboy, TH, our pets, and TH's long standing group of friends who've been sitting around my kitchen table, sleeping over, and helping themselves to whatever's in the fridge since 1995.

I've watched this lovely group of miscreants go from little boys building forts in our back yard and catching wild frogs (who's been around long enough to remember the "Five Wild Frogs?) to handsome young men with incredibly big appetites and even bigger feet who most weekends make their way here after one party or another to "crash."

Apparently the floor in TH's bedroom is comfortable and on most Saturday and Sunday mornings there are several comatose bodies littering the carpet, and a mulititude of big shoes on the porch indicating how many I'll be feeding when they come to.



This morning we were serving four because, though there are five pairs of shoes pictured, TH had to work at 10:00 and left the house long before the rest of the crew re-animated.

Though small may be the new big, and yadda yadda yadda, let's face it - when it comes to bathrooms you can never have enough.

And we don't.

Add to that the recent health kick I've been on that includes the nightly imbibement of an elixir called Liquid Greens Detox, and you've got a recipe for gastrointestinal crisis.

I'll set the scene.

The troops had begun to revive themselves and I, doing my best impersonation of June Cleaver in yet another festive apron, was whipping up a blender full of banana chocolate protein shakes, scrambled eggs, and turkey bacon (it's rugby season) when the first rumble in my stomach began.

There were two boys in the kitchen talking to me about Alton Brown of all things, while the other two were off taking incredibly long showers.

I began to pray.

"Please Lord, let them finish, please Lord, let the water turn off, please Lord..."

Uuumph.

Gurrrrrrrgle.

Intense pressure.

Good Lord.

I could no longer move, my eyes were bulging, and as I stood at the blender with my crossed legs shaking beneath the apron, I added a new prayer: "Don't let them talk to me."

Which, of course, went unanswered.

I can only imagine what I must have looked like as I panted out the ingredients in the smoothie one of them asked for and then straight legged it over to the toaster when the bread popped.

But just as I was beginning to think I was going to have to make my way to the back yard and relieve myself behind the shed, the water stopped in the bathroom down the hall and I only had to wait another five minutes as the occupant inside dried off, got dressed, and brushed his hair.

Which tells me it might be a good idea to forgo the detox greens tonight because they've already put in a request for whole wheat banana pancakes tomorrow (recipe on The Kitchen Witch)



And that's the blog!

Stay tuned for tomorrow's blog because it's going to be a good one. Ever since our beloved dog Ziggy died, unexplainable things have been happening around our house... which can only mean one thing.

My grandmother's at it again.

God love her.

And what I have to share is pretty amazing.

Until then, tell me, got any bathroom hogging offenders around your house?

Ever imbibed a detoxing elixir?

No topics off limits around these parts because my enquiring mind always wants to know!

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Happy Sunday and remember, in all things give thanks.