We Were In A Pickle

Pickles and more pickles that is what yesterday was all about here at the farm.  Lisa and I harvested a very large bunch of both slicing cucumbers and pickling cucumbers and since we there were so many it was time to make more pickles.  We also decided to go ahead and make some dill pickles using the heat processing  way so we can hopefully have some homegrown, homemade dill pickles in the winter like we will with the bread and butter pickles.  So we got busy right after lunch and started slicing the cucumbers, getting the jars sterilized, making the pickling juices and making the pickles.  It is a process and we spent the next 5 hours making pickles.  We ended up making 7 quarts of Bread & Butter pickles, 1 pint of bread & butter pickles, 21 pints of dill pickles and 2 jars of dill pickle relish.  Needless to say, we were in a pickle.  We were exhausted but we used every pickling cucumber we had.  Now, on to the squash.  Check back tomorrow and see what we did!