Midsummer on the shortgrass prairie is a long, bright, patient season, and grass grows faster than most schedules allow for. Freedom Repair and Maintenance LLC takes on the yards and properties around Yuma that have gotten ahead of their owners — knocking them down, trimming the fence lines and alley edges, cutting back overgrowth and hauling off what is left behind. There is a plain satisfaction in the before and after: a lot that was knee-high at breakfast laid open and level by the time a meadowlark starts up on the wire. Regular maintenance visits after that keep it from ever getting away again, from the first spring cleanup through the last mow of the year. Yuma comes first, then Eckley, Otis, Wray and whatever sits along the roads between.