Late in the day is when Firestone comes outside — sprinklers throwing arcs across the front lawns, walkers out on the Firestone Trail, shadows getting long and blue across the cul-de-sacs. Cardoza lawn care likes leaving a yard right at that hour, when the cut is fresh and the light is soft and the whole thing looks its best. The work itself is plain and steady: mowing on a schedule, edges run clean along the drive, trimming everywhere the mower can't reach. A yard kept that way stops being a chore somebody is behind on. It just becomes the place where the evening happens.