The trailer ramp comes down at dawn with a clang you can hear two houses over, and that is the day starting in Mercer. Haulin Grass Lawn Care runs a route across this rolling country — mowing, trimming, edging, and carrying the clippings and yard waste away so nothing sits in a pile at the curb. Between stops the road drops into a creek bottom and climbs back out, and the county unrolls a little differently every mile. Cleanups start the season in spring and leaf hauling finishes it in November, with steady weekly cuts through the middle. Nothing gets left behind but a short lawn and tire tracks in the dew that are gone by noon.