Out around Elk the yards run into pasture and the pasture runs into oak, and a lawn only stays a lawn if somebody keeps after it. Big Cap's Lawn Patrol LLC keeps after it — the same round every week, mowing, trimming the fenceline and the mailbox post, edging where the drive gives way to grass. Fertilizing and weed control hold the turf through the dry midsummer stretch when the road dust hangs in the air. A spring cleanup opens the year and a fall one closes it, leaves and sticks and everything the wind left behind. Come Friday there is a mowed line between yard and field, straight as a rule.