Step back a mile from the river and East China Township turns to farm ground — flat black fields, drainage cuts running toward the Belle, hedgerows of box elder that the wind bends the same direction every year. TJ's Total Landscaping & Contracting mows and maintains the lawns out there, along with the tighter subdivision yards closer to town. June is the hard month; the grass takes off after every rain and the only real answer is showing up on schedule. A clean band of trimmed grass along a fenceline, beds with nothing volunteering in them, a lawn that looks intentional — that is the deliverable. It is straightforward work, and doing it the same way every visit is most of the trick.