A July thunderstorm crosses Charlotte in twenty minutes and leaves the grass an inch taller by morning. Bad Llama Lawn Care goes back out into that steaming afternoon, when the backyards behind Cochran Avenue are still dripping and the air smells like warm cut green. Mowing, trimming and edging on a schedule the weather keeps rewriting — that is most of a mid-Michigan summer, and there is something cheerful about keeping pace with it. A yard that was shaggy at noon is squared away by supper, lines running true, borders clean along the fence posts. Charlotte first, then out to Bellevue, Vermontville and Eaton Rapids.