The old courthouse still holds the middle of Mount Pulaski's square, brick and shuttered and older than nearly everything around it, and in July the shade it throws is the coolest ground in Logan County. Ideal Lawn Maintenance spends those afternoons out in the other kind of light — the flat, ringing heat that sits on a lawn from noon until five. Mowing on a schedule, working the corners a deck can't reach, cutting a definite border where grass meets drive. The work is plain and the result is not: a lawn that feels calm and finished the moment you pull up to it. That is the whole idea, week after week, from the first green push in April to the last cut before the cold.