Things I Learned Yesterday

1. When your friends plant a forest of cucumbers, skip town and leave you to watch their garden, you better get a plan in place to deal with them.
2. Pickling salt is ridiculously absent from several grocery stores in our town.
3. The grocery store where pickling salt can be found (the one closest to our house, of course) has two different types. One brand is 3#/$3.99 the other is 4#/$1.99. You do the math.
4. The recipe for dill relish only uses 8# of cucumbers. Which isn't nearly enough, considering our current situation. 
5. Tumeric stained dish clothes look surprisingly similar to baby diaper blow-outs.
6. OxiClean does not react with tumeric stains the same way it does with baby poop. It turns the tumeric a bright maroon color.
7. But eventually, OxiClean works on tumeric stains. I love OxiClean, but that's nothing new.
8. It's fun to learn new things. I like stretching my canning muscles and increasing my know-how. I'd never pickled anything before.
9. We are seven pints of dill relish richer than we were the day before. And we still have plenty more cucumbers. I have a feeling we'll be a lot richer in the pickle department before this is over.
10. The Wallins need to come home soon, or we'll be over our heads in tomatoes, too!