We ended up with 9 pint jars, and three quart jars. I had to scrounge for spices, but we made do in the end. All the jars sealed properly. Now I just have to let them cure for a week before opening a jar.

…and found out I had totally underestimated how many jars I needed. I was making spicy-garlic dills, and stuck either a serrano or half a jalepeño in each jar along with the spears. Some of the garlic was local, purchased from the farmers' market, some came from a jar. So we scrounged around for more jars.

I hunted up a recipe. I figured, based on how much my cukes weighed, I'd have about 9 pints, and adjusted the recipe (that called for 6 pints) accordingly. I quartered them up and got going…

We had a good shot of rain today, which meant I didn't have to drag out the hoses to water the garden.

Yesterday, the wife helped (a lot) with making some spicy garlic dill pickles. Cucumbers are crazy; they're about the size of your thumb one day, then mahoosive the next. So I had a bunch of big guys to cut up.

Ah, August. The month when the tomatoes are producing faster than we can eat them! It just might be time to make gazpacho this weekend. And pickles from the cucumbers that went from tiny to enormous overnight…

Yesterday's sunset.

13yo pulled up the camera app on his phone and waved it at the rainy side window in the car.

Some cute overload for the evening: #DogsofCoso