In early October the retina of my left eye spontaneously tore and began to detach.

The surgeon told me not to read, not to work on the computer.
But that I could watch television.
I didn’t flinch, I didn't crack a smile.

Yes, I could feel the stitches like sandpaper under that eyelid when I’d forgotten and accidentally read something with my good eye. But I did find that I could stare at the end of a ball-point pen and not feel the surgical eye scraping its lid.

What you have here fit generally under the heading “Horse Barn Inventions.”

I know that Cross-Tie Fuses owes a debt to someone unknown and unidentifiable, and say it’s here as a safety item, believing that excluding it is negligent.
I’m told that somebody had seen Catch Ropes in another barn, but I say they “came to me” as an avoidance of waste, and that I had not seen them before.

I guess I’d say to consider them in this order: