The first mow of April in Bloomington is half haircut and half announcement — the whole street hears it, and half the block follows by the weekend. Joe Joe's Lawn Care runs that season end to end: cutting, string trimming, edging along walks and driveways, and clearing leaves once the yards start giving them back in October. Summers here turn humid enough to stop a person in their tracks, and the work still gets done yard by yard, on a schedule people can plan around. A blown-clean sidewalk and a straight line down the middle of a lawn is a small, honest result to hand somebody. Bloomington is full of streets that look better for it.