August in Hastings smells like cut grass and fairground dust. The week the Barry County Fair fills up, everything else in town still needs mowing, and Crouchs Cutting keeps that ordinary work moving. Mow. Trim the fence line. Edge the walk until the corners go sharp. It is not complicated work, but done in order and done on time it turns a shaggy yard into something the owner is glad to pull into. Hastings, Nashville, Freeport and the roads between them make up the territory.