Making some Bread & Butter Pickles

Made more "Bread & Butter" pickles tonight. 15 little fruit jar pints from the cukes from my trellising vines! They will make nice gifts in the autumn! And you know I've spent the majority of my adult life in the state of "Orphan". My Father died when I was 25, my mother when I was 31. But never a week goes by that I am not grateful to have been their son for the ways in which they loved me and things that they taught me. Like canning! It's really a skill better taught in the presence of someone who already knows what it is they are doing.