Late May, and you can hear a thunderstorm coming across the fields west of town twenty minutes before it arrives — which is exactly enough time to finish a lawn if you keep moving. Grass grows hardest in those humid weeks, so routine is everything: mowing at a steady interval, trimming close, edging the walks, and clearing a yard properly in spring and again when the season closes. Rain that heavy leaves the whole town glowing green by evening, and a lawn cut that morning looks twice as good for it. The ballfields near the green set a standard that any home yard can meet. Getting a yard there, week after week, is the job.