By noon in June the heat comes off the Highway 84 blacktop in standing waves, and the only shade for a mile is whatever a live oak decided to give. J&J Lawn & Landscape Maintenance Inc holds the schedule right through it, mowing and edging home lawns and commercial frontages, trimming close around sign bases and light poles, and keeping mulch and bed work current. A property that faces a busy road gets read at forty miles an hour, so the line where turf meets curb has to be true the whole length of it. Water breaks in the shade of the truck, then back at it, because grass in this county grows whether anyone feels like cutting it or not. Late in the day the lot is clear, the beds are sharp, and the heat finally starts to let go of the pavement.