In Saint Jacob the day starts wide — Route 143 running straight east, corn standing on both shoulders, and the light coming up over the Silver Creek bottoms before anyone has had coffee. KMJ Lawn Svc LLC mows and trims through that light, working the village lots and the acre-and-a-half yards out on the township roads. There is a plain pleasure in a first pass that lays the grass down all one direction and a last pass that squares the edge hard against the drive. Madison County summers are humid and generous; the grass wants cutting, and here it gets cut on schedule. From Saint Jacob the route reaches out toward Marine, Troy and Highland, one tidy yard at a time.