Fog sits on Jordan Lake most summer mornings until the sun burns a hole through it, and by then the mowers are already running along the lanes east of the village. Haskins Dirt Co. Excavating keeps lawns cut, trimmed and edged around Lake Odessa, where a single property can run from shoreline sand to good Ionia County loam in the space of one fence line. The last pass along a driveway is the one that counts — the line drawn straight, the clippings cleared, the grass standing up in even rows behind the machine. Spring and fall cleanups take care of what the maples send down. Ordinary work, done attentively, on the same streets they drive every day.