By late June the Bermuda grass around Catoosa Springs grows like it has somewhere to be, especially after one of those afternoons when the thunder stacks up over the ridge and drops an inch of rain in twenty minutes. Austin's Lawn Service works the days between the storms — mowing, running the trimmer down fence lines and around mailbox posts, cutting a clean edge where turf meets concrete. There is satisfaction in the sound of it: the engine settling into a rhythm, cut grass hanging sweet in the humidity, the walk blown clean at the end. Cleanups come around in spring and again when the hardwoods let go in November. A mowed yard here is a small, decisive answer to a fast season, and it holds until the next rain comes through.