August noon in Larkin Township, sun straight overhead, the kind of heat that makes a neglected lot look twice its actual size. Savage Services goes at that grass anyway — mowing it down, trimming the fence line and the ditch bank, clearing the yard back to something a person would walk across barefoot. Overgrown to orderly in one afternoon is a fine way to spend a day. The lawns on a regular visit never reach that state at all, and holding them steady through a long Michigan summer is most of the actual job. Cut, edged, blown off, done.