The first warm Saturday in Gaylord sounds like small engines — everybody at once, all over town, after five months of quiet. Otsego Outdoor Power mows, trims and edges through the season that follows, from the first ragged cut in May to the last short one before the ground gives up its heat. Grass this far north comes on fast and then stops abruptly, so the schedule has to bend to the grass rather than the other way around. There is genuine pleasure in an even cut on a still evening, the lines running out straight and the walk swept clean behind them. In fall the leaves come down and get taken away, and the yard is put to bed.