Where Fountain Creek comes down and gives itself to the Arkansas, the ground stays a shade greener than the rest of the county, and the yards along that bottom out toward Blende show it. TLS Services works the whole calendar across Pueblo and out this way — mowing, edging and trimming through the warm stretch, cleanups at either end of it, and plow, shovel and salt whenever the north side of a driveway refuses to let go. The shoulder weeks are the interesting ones, when Tuesday is sixty-five degrees and Thursday has four inches on the ground. Handling both halves means never having to tell a customer the yard is somebody else's problem now. Same trucks, same list, whatever the sky is doing.