The first real mow of the year comes the week the ditches finally drain and the windbreak stops dripping. Best Cut Lawn Care Inc opens with a cleanup, winter's sticks and blown stalks off the turf and the beds pulled back into shape, then settles into the weekly cut that carries a yard to October. The grass comes off at an even height, passes alternate so it stands rather than leans, and the trimmer finishes what a deck cannot reach. Late in the year the leaves go, and the lawn is put to bed flat and clean. On open ground a well-kept yard can be seen from a long way off, which is reason enough to keep it right.