Alger Heights keeps its evenings long in June, the kind where the light lies flat across the lawns off Eastern Avenue until nearly ten. Griff's Services works those hours — mowing, string trimming, edging, and clearing the clippings off before the dew comes back down. There is a plain satisfaction in a line cut straight along a sidewalk that has been there since the neighborhood was young. Grand Rapids grass runs fast through a wet June and slows to almost nothing in a dry August, and the schedule bends either way rather than fighting it. What the work is after is simple: a yard that reads as cared for from the street, week after week, without the homeowner having to think about it.