By October the clay outside Bremen firms up and the light comes in low across the pastures — good working weather, the kind that lets you move dirt and get it right. Garland Landscaping and Contracting handles the shaping as well as the cutting: mowing and edging on the regular rounds, mulch in the beds, brush and overgrowth taken back, ground graded so the water goes where it ought to go. A yard out here is half lawn and half landscape, and both halves have to be worked. When the last pass is done and the equipment is loaded, the lines are straight and the ground reads clean all the way to the road.