Maintenance is the unglamorous half of a good yard, and it is the half that decides how the place looks come July. PASCHAL'S Lawn and Maintenance keeps Thomson lawns on a schedule — mowing, edging, string trimming, shrub tidying, and blowing the hard surfaces clean before the truck pulls away. Bermuda and centipede in this red-clay country will run wild after a fortnight of rain, so the return trip is the entire strategy. Nothing dramatic happens on any single visit; the drama is what never happens, which is a yard getting away from the person who lives there. Thomson, Dearing, Boneville and the McDuffie County stretch around them.