By mid-August every truck on the gravel roads through Brady Township carries a plume of dust behind it, and the lawns have gone the pale gold of a dry Michigan summer. That is when mowing turns into a judgment call: cut high, cut less often, let the turf keep what moisture it has until the rain comes back. Trimming and edging still get done, because a dry lawn with a clean border still looks intentional rather than abandoned. When the late-summer storms finally break the heat, everything greens in three days and the route runs at full speed again. Reading the season like that is most of lawn care in this township.