Shoal Creek gives its name to the country it runs through — bottomland timber, sycamores leaning out over the water, farm ground lifting away on both banks. Ronnie's Yard Work and Small Job Services keeps the yards along there mowed and trimmed, and takes on the odd corners other routes skip: the ditch bank, the strip behind the shed, the ragged patch around the mailbox. Heat sits heavy down in the bottoms by midsummer, so an early start is worth two late ones. A yard gone over properly has no shaggy edge left anywhere on it, and that is the mark to hit. Serving Shoal Creek and the nearby Clinton and Bond County communities.