July at midday in Jenison, the pavement holds the heat and the mowers run anyway. Lou's Lawn & Snow Care LLC keeps a steady route through the township's older streets, where the maples are big, the lots are square, and every yard has its own quirk of drainage to learn. Cutting, trimming, edging, then the walks blown off before leaving — the same order every visit, which is how a route stays honest. In fall the leaves go, in spring the winter's mess goes with them. It's ordinary work, and it's the reason a street reads as looked-after from one end to the other.