July in Lake Odessa smells like cut grass and lake water, and somewhere between the two you can usually hear a ballgame from the park. Vern's Sport & Repair handles mowing, trimming and edging around the village and the lakeshore streets, where grass grows fast in the humid stretch of ground between Tupper Lake and Jordan Lake. A weekly cut keeps a yard even instead of shaggy, and the trimmer work around mailboxes, posts and shoreline steps is what makes it look finished rather than merely mown. Autumn rounds pull the leaves off before they mat down over the turf. Small town, familiar yards, steady work all season long.