November in Gun Plain township is the season of last things — the last mow, the last load of leaves, the first thin flurries skittering across a bare lawn. Zed's Outdoor Services closes the year out properly: cutting the grass down one final time, clearing what the maples and oaks dropped, and leaving the yard tidy before the ground locks up. Through the warm months it is the ordinary steady rotation of mowing, trimming and edging on lawns around the township. Outdoor work here is really a long conversation with the weather, and the trick is answering it on time. A yard put to bed clean in the fall is a yard that comes back easy in the spring.