Come August in Pavo, the afternoon light lies flat across Highway 122 and the cotton at the end of every street shimmers in the heat. T & H Sales & Salvage works that weather the way people here always have: early, steady, water in the truck, a plan for each yard before the tailgate drops. Grass runs hard in this soil, so the schedule matters as much as the mower, because a lawn kept on rhythm never gets away from anyone. Mowing, string trimming along fence lines and posts, edging the walk, then blowing the clippings back off the concrete so nothing tracks indoors. When the sun finally eases toward the Brooks County line, the yards along the route stand even, with every border cut true.