Pickles!!!

So I'm making my first pickles tonight.  They are refrigerator bread and butter pickles.  I used Alton Brown's Recipe.    They should be awesome.  They smell awesome.

Here is my beautiful jar of pickles waiting to cool. 

One of the best parts about making pickles is pickling spice.  It's a combination of cloves, nutmeg, mustard seed, hot pepper flakes, and a few other spices.  It smells like Christmas in a jar.  I could just sit around and smell it all day long.  

Delicious!