My [Garden] Runneth Over

This is what I spent my morning doing. 

Handy Daddy and the Bug planted two little cucumber plants in their garden this spring, and since the summer rains arrived, the cucumbers are aplenty.  I had to figure out what to do with them, because we can't eat or give them away fast enough.

Now, I am fairly domestic, but not quite Suzy Homemaker.  So this was a bit of a challenge for me, especially since I have never done this before, or seen it done before, or have the proper tools to do it.

It is a genuine miracle I didn't end up with third degree burns on the top half of my body.

Now I have to wait 12 to 24 hours to "test" the seal on the jars, and I will then know whether or not this even worked.  The directions were a little complicated, and I was preparing lunches and feeding the baby at the same time I was doing this.  So who knows? 

If it did work, and they are as delicious as I expect them to be, I will probably be giving them away.  And then everyone will want to be my friend.  And then my front door will look something like this.

Then everyone will call me the Pickle Lady.  Sweet...