Grass in Arkansas is decided in August, when the weeks run hot and dry and an unwatered lawn goes to straw. Arkansas Irrigation & Sod works that problem from both ends around Gifford, with sprinkler systems laid out, installed and tuned until the coverage is even, and fresh sod set on ground prepared to take it. Sod is simple work in the doing: strip it, grade it, roll it out tight, water it in, then watch the seams disappear over a couple of weeks. Spring is for system start-ups and new lawns, and late fall is for blowing the lines out ahead of a hard freeze. There is a particular satisfaction in walking barefoot across turf that was bare dirt a month before.