My First Cucumber!

My cucumber plants survived the recent fire in my yard when they were babies, even though the flames were close enough to melt part of the plastic pot they are in.  And lately they've been thriving, as you can see in this photo of them taken this evening:

And while I'd seen there were some cucumbers growing, I thought the biggest ones were only about the size of my little finger, like this one:

But then today, as I was watering the plants, I suddenly saw, much to my surprise, this WAY larger cucumber!

And then on the other side I found one that was even longer, though much skinnier.  And I decided to go ahead and pick that one.  You can see how big it was, when it is compared to Henry:

It was SO very big that I almost felt I could reach the sky with it...

As you can probably tell, I am very proud of my first cucumber.  I brought it inside and ate it right up.  I look forward to many more.