Montgomery is mostly hill and hardwood, a scatter of houses on roads that climb steeply out of the Westfield River valley. Lafond Septic Services works the ground in these hills and keeps lawns mowed and maintained through the growing season — the sloped yards, the roadside strips, the turnarounds cut out of the trees. On a July morning the fog lies in the Little River notch until nine, and then the whole hillside comes up green at once. Mowing on a grade is its own skill: hold the line true, keep the cut even, leave nothing scalped at the crown. By evening the yard looks like somebody cared, because somebody did.