In Moosup the yards are narrow and the houses stand close, mill-village style, so an inch of overgrowth announces itself immediately. June work there is a matter of precision more than power — mowing the small squares of lawn, trimming tight around foundations and fence lines, edging where the grass wants to creep over the sidewalk. It adds up fast: a row of houses on one street, all crisp by the same afternoon, and the whole block looks lifted. Property maintenance covers the in-between things too, the steady tidying that keeps a place from sliding. Between the river and Route 14 there are a great many small yards in this town, and every one of them can look sharp.