A surprise

While I was fixing dinner tonight John told me he got me a present today. I tried to get him to spill but he wouldn't, so of course that was just torture. He kept me guessing for about 2 hours when he finally told me to go out in the truck to get a music folder and my surprise. My hubby bought me (home-canned) pickled beets. Oh, yummy! Nothing can make this girl any happier (ok, so yeah, a cruise, diamond ring, or cape cod would, but you get the point.) When i was little, as my mom would say, I'd sit on them and eat them all up (which I use to joke that if I sat on them clearly I couldn't eat them.) But now, I savor these and stretch them out to last me a long time. The memories they bring back of my mom pickling and canning in the kitchen! I still have some of her mason jars.