Out toward the north end of Bloomington Road, April shows up as mud well before it shows up as green — the ground thaws, the rain arrives, and every lawn in Champaign spends two weeks deciding whether it made it. Red Dog Lawn care & Ext. Remodeling starts the year in that stretch. First mowings, the cleanup of everything winter wind carried in, and edges reestablished after months of being pushed around by weather. Central Illinois hands you a short spring and a long growing season, so getting on a route early is what makes the rest of it easy. By the time the evenings stretch out, the yard is already where it ought to be.