"who killed my orchids?"

i watered the orchids! oh sheit was i supposed to water the orchids? she said "please water the plants", so i did, well... orchids are plants too are they not?
it's just that the animal doc is like a fundi of flowering orchids. is your orchid sitting there sulking, not a blossom in sight? no problem, send it to board with the animal doctor. before you know it - buds bursting out all over the place.

the reason for my concern is ... darn but if i am not terribly talented at causing travail amongst pot plants, the responsibility is killing me. still i can hardly cause mass root rot in a week, now can i?
as you might have guessed i am house sitting - for the animal doctor while she sashays around romania, visiting dracula's castle, eating wonderful romanian food and for all i know whispering with wolves. i should have gone with but ... oh no, so here i am taking care of a huge empty house, two enormous hounds, one very chubby turkish swimming cat (to whom i am allergic!) and hundreds of pots plants. well, it feels like hundreds!

however ...
i do get to drive the animal doctor's super duper, shiny, new volvo estate, with ... wait for it ...
six forward gears. oy what a dream!