Three weeks without real rain is a normal August in the Intervale, the fields going tan while the mowers keep right on running. The (W)right Way Lawn Care & Plowing LLC reads a New Gloucester lawn in that stretch — cutting high while the heat is on, edging and trimming so the shape holds even when the color doesn't, and waiting on seed until the ground will actually take it. When September breaks the drought the turf comes back fast, and the fall work begins in earnest: leaves off, beds cleared, the yard put away clean. Spring starts by pulling winter sand and dead growth out of the grass so it can stand up again. The rest is showing up on schedule, which turns out to be most of it.