Friday afternoon on the country lots north of Belvidere, and the grass runs a long way before it meets a fence. Hayes Mowing LLC takes those big open yards the way they ought to be taken — full-width passes, headlands cut last, the whole acre finished in stripes you can read from the road. Mowing is the heart of it, with trimming and edging to tighten the corners and cleanups when the season demands. An acre cut well before a weekend is a plain gift to whoever lives there. Nothing complicated in that, just a machine, a straight line and enough daylight to reach the far end.