Fresh Cut Lawns

About Fresh Cut Lawns

July in Spirit Lake smells like two things at once — corn filling out along Highway 71 and grass just cut. Fresh Cut Lawns makes the second one all week: mowing, string trimming, edging walks and curbs, blowing clippings off pavement before they can stain it. Heat settles in heavy by two in the afternoon, so routes start early and blades stay sharp, because a dull blade tears a leaf and the whole yard goes tan by Thursday. Cut properly, the color holds and the lines stand up straight right through the weekend. That is the whole ambition, repeated every seventh day from first green to hard frost.