We're starting to harvest a few cucumbers along, mostly using in salads
at the moment. We're using up the last of the winter lettuce in salads
along with fresh cukes, squash, cherry tomatoes, and radishes. Looking
at the cuke vines today it looks like I might be able to put up a few
quarts of sliced sweet pickles soon. I use a very old recipe that I have
adapted to use sucralose versus real sugar plus Pickle Crisp. Works out
to be just as good as the way we made them more than 40 years ago, with
laboriously limed and rinsed cuke slices then put up with lots of sugar.
Myself and our diabetic friends really appreciate the sweet "diabetic"
pickles.

In addition we will soon be picking green beans, they're on the verge of
being the right size. We put up lots of dilly carrot pickles over the
winter as our great grands love the things. Hopefully we will get a
bumper crop of green beans this spring so we can make dilly beans. One
way or the other we will get the grands and great grands to eat more
vegetables.

Miz Anne is slowly cleaning out the art room so we can renovate it. In
the meantime I am sealing the grout on ceramic in the kitchen and
laundry rooms and caulking around the exterior windows and doors.
Getting hot here in sweaty southwestern Loosyanna, 87F at 1 pm this
afternoon but a nice breeze blowing. The AC has been running off and on
since about 11 am so guess the season has begun. We try to do as much
outside work as we can in the early morning and late afternoon.
Excepting the mosquitoes it is usually pretty nice then.

We hope all are putting food by or getting ready to as we are.

George

Father Inquisitor, HOSSPOJ