July in Peach County builds its own weather: still, heavy air all morning, then a wall of cloud coming up from the southwest around three o'clock. C & J Lawn care reads that sky like a schedule, getting the mowing done ahead of it and finishing the trim work while thunder is still a long way off. Rain out here means everything grows another inch by Thursday, which is why the route never really slows between May and September. There is a plain pleasure in walking off a yard just as the first fat drops start, the edges cut and the clippings blown off the concrete. Come fall the pace eases, the leaves come down, and the work turns to hauling them out.