May 31, 2012 journal

This is the day Ava has been waiting for all winter; the day we have enough cucumbers for a batch of pop's garlic dill pickles.  

Actually, picking the cucumbers encourages the plants to produce even more cucumbers, so it is a win win situation.

Now, it is just a matter of mixing the brine, placing the spices and cucumbers in the crock, and the hardest part, waiting.