August in Bulloch County builds all afternoon — the sky stacking white above the pines until it lets go in a twenty-minute downpour and clears again by supper. Greener Blades Lawn Care reads that weather for a living, cutting between the storms and coming back to a lawn that put on two days' growth overnight. The work is mowing, edging, string trimming, and blowing the clippings off the walks and driveway so nothing tracks inside. Wet Brooklet summers make grass ambitious, and a steady weekly cut is what keeps a yard looking deliberate instead of overrun. There is a plain pleasure in standing at the mailbox afterward and watching the stripes run clean to the fenceline.