Cat of crossed eye

If you meet a cross-eyed person
you must plunge into the grass,
alongside the chilly ants,
fish through the green fingernails
and come up with the four-leaf clover....

(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Evil Eye.")


A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at.

~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902


His Siamese genes shine through with his eyes and his amazing vocal range from croon to an almost yodel. Our Max, soon fifteen and still fit as a fiddle. My brother and sister-in-law have always called him, One Bad Eye, it's his left one...

Still coughing, but it's controlled with the cough suppressant that doesn't heal, but lets me sleep. I have a Garden Club Board meeting this morning, then a day of rest.


This day came in overcast, 43 degrees at 7AM, 94% humidity, light winds from the NW, barometer holding steady at 31.43. Sunrise, 5:34, Sunset, 7:46. 0.41 inches of rain this month.