Late August brings the fairgrounds to life and keeps Escanaba outdoors through the last warm evenings of the year, and that is exactly when the lawns around town are thickest and least willing to wait a week. Borman Landscaping works that stretch hard — cutting, string trimming around posts and beds, edging the sidewalk lines back to something crisp enough to see from the street. Spring here starts slow and then arrives all at once, so the first cleanups come with rakes full of everything winter left behind. Autumn asks the reverse: leaves off the grass before the ground goes cold and hard. A yard that reads as cared for from the curb is what the whole week is built around.