A late-spring rain moves in from the west across the flats down toward Dundee Road, soaks in overnight, and by Thursday every lawn in the subdivision is two days behind. Raymond Lawn Care Service meets Palatine in that scramble, mowing, trimming and edging on a route that bends with the weather instead of ignoring it. Wet grass cuts heavy and clumps if you rush it, so the work is partly patience and partly timing. What a household sees is simply a yard that never gets away from them: cut evenly, edged along the drive, the walk blown clean. By autumn the same route turns to pulling leaves off before they smother the turf.