It’s our first cucumber of the season! We were all so excited that we ate it right away – even though it is a pickling cucumber.

Eating the cucumber made me feel like a little girl again and I remembered all the pickles my grandma would make. I felt like I was suddenly back in her kitchen again crunching down on the freshest cuke ever. Almost like time never passed. I like that.

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One of the boys said, “Mommy, you forgot to peel it first”. So I happily explained that we don’t have to peel the ones that we grow in our garden.

And they happily ate their very first cucumber from our garden. Thank you, Grandma, for passing the love of a garden onto your daughter who has perhaps unintentionally passed it onto me as I do to my children. May they do the same.

Yum!