Late summer around Custer stacks thunderheads in the west by four o'clock, so the mowing gets done in the long bright hours ahead of them. Personal Cuts Lawn Care LLC works those hours — cutting, string trimming the fence line, running a clean edge where the lawn meets gravel, and clearing the walk of clippings before leaving. Out here a yard is bordered by fields, and the line between mowed lawn and open country ought to be visible from the road. That line is the point: crisp at the driveway, tidy at the mailbox, no ragged corner hiding behind the shed. Come October the same yards need their leaves taken off, and the season closes with the grass short, clean and put to bed.