East of town past Sunset Hill Farm, August turns the hay fields pale gold and the heat sits on everything until evening. Thor Spot Lawn Care carries Valparaiso yards through that stretch, raising the deck so the turf shades its own roots and mowing early while there is still cool left in the grass. Trimming around fences, posts and foundations; a clean edge at the drive; the clippings blown off the concrete before the truck rolls on. Heat is hard on a lawn, and getting one through it without scalping or stress is its own kind of skill. Then the first cool week of September comes and the yards that were handled right green back up like nothing ever happened.