The last cut of the year in Howell usually lands in late October — low sun, geese going over, the mower throwing more leaf than grass. Mitter's Outdoor Services, LLC works that day the way it works the first one in April: full pass, clean trim, edges reset, because a lawn put away neatly starts better in spring. In between sit all the ordinary weeks of mowing, trimming and edging that add up to a good-looking yard. Grass here grows hard through June, sulks in August, then makes one last push once the nights cool off. Reading that curve is most of the job.