July afternoons in Durand come out flat and bright and loud with cicadas, the kind of heat where grass puts on an inch between visits. Bradley's Lawn Busters cuts straight through it — mowing on a schedule, trimming fence lines and foundation corners, edging the walks back to a clean run. A lawn does its best work in the evening, when the passes show as bands of light and dark and the whole yard sits level. From the first push of spring to the last cleanup of fall, that weekly return is the entire job. In a town this size, the yards along a street tell you exactly who has been by.