Brown & Orange... Not Always the Best Of Friends 6.28 Months Ago

Like all siblings, Brown and Orange have a love hate relationship.  They are not always the best of friends.  When they are the best of friends they conspire against me.  When they aren't the best of friends they conspire against each other.

This is what happened.....


I have a front veranda.  I like my front veranda, I quite like it a lot.  I can sit on my front veranda and eat breakfast, or read the paper, or write my blog, or listen to music, or have a beer.  Sometimes all of those things at once.  Except I don't drink beer for breakfast.... usually.  The best thing about my veranda though is I can grow plants.

I like plants, plants are great.  Except that I generally end up killing them.  I tried to grow herbs once, that didn't work out very well.  So I stick to plants.  I had five living plants on my veranda, and I was very pleased with myself.  I even had a chilli plant which was doing rather well.  I like chilli, chilli is great.  Except when there is too much chilli, then it isn't so great because it hurts.  Both going in and coming out.

So 6.25 months ago I came home from work and found 1 plant knocked over with dirt spread around it.  I blamed Orange.  I thought she had gotten into the plant to have a poop and by accident knocked it over.  Bad Orange.  I scooped up the plant and the dirt and put it back in its place.

6.26 months ago I came home from work and found the same plant and another one knocked over.  The dirt had spread a bit further this time.  I still blamed Orange.  Bad Orange... no soup for you!  Not that I feed Orange soup, but you get what I mean. I once again scooped up the plants and dirt and put them back in their place.

This is when I started to become a bit suspicious. There was actually no Orange poop in the dirt I was cleaning up.  So could Orange really be capable of that sort of damage?  Well, she is Orange after all, with evil tendencies. So yes, I still thought I should blame Orange.

Except I shouldn't have....... 


You see it was actually Brown who destroyed my plants.  Brown had conspired against Orange.  I don't know why.  Perhaps in one of their secret meetings to conspire against me Orange had refused to comply.  Which was probably a good thing for me, who knows what they were conspiring next after all.

6.28 months ago I woke up to a colossal mess of mass proportions.  To much for the Orange to make overnight.

This is how I know Brown was actually the culprit.....

A sleeping dog always lies.  Especially when he is only pretending to sleep.

Brown was sleeping with one eye open.....

The full extent of the colossal mess of mass proportions, including a now dead chilli plant.....

Did you do this Brown?

Guilty as charged!

And the evidence to prove it!

Lesson Learnt #1:  Brown and Orange don't only conspire against me, they also conspire against each other

Lesson Learnt #2:  Don't suspect Orange when I have suspicions that it may have been Brown all along

Lesson Learnt #3:  Even if Brown and Orange conspire against each other.... They are really only conspiring against me