Let me say that yes, I gave this entry its title solely because it sounded good.

No, wait. Not solely, no. It started tonight as I was using the DR Mower to “brush hog” (mow) the north pasture, in hopes that the walnut saplings would continue to grow and maybe even become a grove. As I did so, my mind achieved a certain Zen-like quality of clarity, and as the noise from the machine roared and my thoughts quieted, I heard a song from television last night, Soft Kitty. The song was from an episode of The Big Bang Theory.

I came inside after the chugging lawn beast and I were done devouring our half acre to find that Abby had a People Magazine, in which her coworkers had found a picture of actress Linda Gray and pointed out how much Abby looked like this celebrity. Normally I think of my wife as looking like supermodel Cheryl Tiegs, but they were right.