By late July the Grand Valley makes its own afternoons: a thunderhead stacks over the Grand Mesa, the wind gets out ahead of it, and the first fat drops raise dust before they wet anything. Dirtmonkey Mowing runs ahead of that clock, cutting in the cool hours so the grass is finished and the trimming done before the sky turns. Summer lawns here grow hard and dry out fast, so the deck stays high and the blade stays sharp. A yard cut at the right hour comes out even and unbruised, right down to the strip along the alley fence. That is worth getting up early for.