Six in the morning at the shop: blades checked, decks scraped, trailer loaded before Wauconda is properly awake. Lawn Mechanix takes the machine side of this work seriously, because a sharp blade is the whole difference between a cut lawn and a torn one. Mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups, run route by route across the village and out along the roads toward Island Lake. Grass tells on you three days later — brown tips or clean green — and that verdict is what the morning is built around.