By eight in the morning a July day in Hoboken has already made its intentions clear, so the cutting starts early, while shade still reaches into the yard. Yeomans Irrigation works the flatwoods country around town, mowing grass that grows hard in the heat and in the rain that follows it. Step fronts and walkways get their edges cut back, and what the blades throw onto the drive is cleared off rather than left to bake. Fall means raking the beds out and pulling pine straw and leaves off the lawn before winter settles into the pines. Late in the day the thunderheads stack up toward the swamp, and another yard stands finished before the first drops land.