A quick recap of 2012 - Part 2 - ORANGE

This is some more of what has happened in the past year......

Orange decided that she really really loved me lots, in the past year she has brought me exactly these special presents:

37 geckos (only 19 were fully eaten by her, the heads of the remainder were left for me to either accidentally step on in the middle of the night or to discard with great disgust)

4 enormous grasshoppers (all were eventually eaten by her)

1 mouse (thankfully fully eaten by her)

3 cockroaches (mostly eaten by her, Brown ate the remains)

1 hamburger patty from the neighbours next door (not sure how she got it, but she fully ate it without Brown knowing)

Cats are gross......

When Brown was sick Orange decided that it would be a good idea to take over his pillow and claim it as her own

I thought this was super cute. It meant that she loved Brown and was keeping his pillow warm for him.

Or so I thought.....

You see, Orange had other plans.

When Brown was well enough to walk up the stairs he wanted to lie down on his pillow but Orange had claimed it as her own. Brown wasn't super happy about this

But Brown being Brown decided it was ok to share.....

I thought this was really super cute, until I realised what Orange really had planned. Orange wanted to show Brown that she was now the Queen Of The Castle, that whatever she wants she gets. Until Brown got sick he was always the King Of The Castle - he is much bigger than her after all.

Her plan worked.....

A few days later I was sitting out on my front deck. I like sitting on my front deck, especially in summer because it is the coolest part of my house. Even when it is 38 degrees outside I sit on my front deck because there is always a lovely breeze that makes it feel like it is only 35 degrees. Inside my house in summer it feels like it is 159 billion degrees. Some nights I even think about dragging a bed outside so I can sleep on my front deck. But when it's 159 billion degrees inside the last thing I want to do is move a bed outside to sleep, so instead I just pretend I am sleeping on my front deck and eventually pass out from heat exhaustion. It seems to work.

Anyway.... a few days later I was sitting out on my front deck. Brown normally likes to lie outside with me because it is cooler than inside. Brown wasn't outside, he was inside. I went to investigate and this is what I found

You see, Orange had staked her claim as Queen Of The Castle and was doing what the Queen Of The Castle does.... guards her territory. Orange was blocking the door so Brown couldn't get outside. Brown was not very happy about this but didn't know what to do about it.

I watched for exactly 1.41 minutes while Brown did his tap dance and complained, he still didn't come outside.

Orange finally decided that Brown could come outside, perhaps she sensed that he was starting to go mental while sitting inside the 159 billion degree heat and was about to attack her to regain his King Of The Castle status......

Orange came over to Brown's pillow beside me, curled up and went to sleep. 

Oh Orange....... :)