On the right morning the air over Battle Creek still carries toasted grain from the cereal plants, drifting out across the neighborhoods that grew up around them. Next Generation Lawn Care LLC works those streets in both directions of the calendar — mowing, trimming and edging while there is grass, plowing driveways and clearing walks once there isn't. Winter here is a long negotiation with gray skies and four-inch nights, and the answer is being out ahead of the alarm clocks. Summer asks for the opposite kind of early: cut, trim, clear the concrete, move along before the heat sets in. Same city, same houses, two completely different jobs.