Late August in Millstadt is heavy and green, the sort of stretch where a lawn can go shaggy in a week if nobody is watching. I & G Properties keeps a set of them on schedule — mowing on rotation, string trimming the edges and the awkward strips, edging along walks and drives, then blowing the paths clean afterward. Cleanups in spring and fall take care of each season's leavings, so the grass goes into winter and comes out of it in decent shape. Well-kept ground reads as care from the curb, whoever lives behind the door. That is the whole idea, repeated every week the grass is growing.