August in Armada arrives with cut hay on the air and the fairgrounds filling up at the edge of the village. Dossin's Lawn & Landscape Service Inc keeps mowers running through those long weeks, laying down clean lines on lawns that stretch back toward Coon Creek and the fields beyond. A yard trimmed close along the fence posts and edged sharp where grass meets gravel is a thing worth doing right. Come winter the same trucks turn toward plow work, opening driveways along the village streets before the school buses roll. It is steady work for a small town that measures its year by harvest and snowfall.