Thunder builds fast over the Missaukee plateau in August, and a mowing day here is often a race between the forecast and the last three yards. Heeren's Lawn Care runs that race all summer through Caldwell Township, mowing, trimming and edging on the mile-road grid where farm lawns run out into corn and hayfield. Wide-open properties take time and take a plan; the payoff is a big yard that looks unified rather than merely cut. Trim work around outbuildings and fence posts is where a yard is won or lost, so it never gets skipped. Cleanups fill in either end of the calendar, and the year closes with the leaves gone before the first hard freeze.