What to do on a hot day...

I guess I am in canning and pickling mode. It is 90 degrees today with 100 degree heat index and I find myself restless. So I decided to make the Current Jelly that I extracted the juice for yesterday. Then I made a Garlic Braid. Not bad for my first attempt, because it is not easy! Then I had cukes that I picked this morning and decided I was hungry for Refridgerator Pickles. Now it is 3:30 and I think I will go read a gardening book and then start supper, a light pasta salad sounds good on a hot day.

Aunt Syble's Refridgerator Pickles from COOKS.COM

7 cups thinly sliced cucumbers

2 cups sugar

1 cup sliced red onion

1 cup apple cider vinegar

1 tablespoon celery seed

1 tablespoon pickling salt

Combine all ingredients together in a gallon jar. Place in the refridgerator. Will keep until gone. Can add more slices to mixture. They're good.

Beautiful! Isn't it?

Garlic! I harvested it today. I harvested six of my seven varieties. The Blossom just looked like it needed a little more time. But isn't it lovely?

I have grown to love the garlic. You plant it in October, so it sits under the snow, waiting. It is the first thing to pop up in the spring. It pops up with the first Dandelions of the year. Then it makes those awesome llittle scapes in June. They are curly and cool looking. They make you smile just to look at them. And they taste good in a salad too. But then in July, when the stalks start to dry, you get to dig up those first few beautiful garlic. They smell so good as you are digging and pull out so straight and long, and then comes the garlic head... nice and round and ready to go.

Now to make my Garlic Jelly and dry and clean it up for Market on Thursday!

Like William Shatner once said, "Stop and smell the Garlic! That is all you have to do."