Out past Litchfield the country opens into long field sections and gravel roads that run straight until suddenly they don't. M. W. Burns Excavating, Gravel & Concrete mows the wide lots that come with ground like that — farmhouse yards, deep road frontage, grass that has to be cut before it turns into hay. Mowing, trimming, edging, fertilizing and weed control, with the spring and fall cleanups that bracket a Hillsdale County year. There is a real pleasure in the moment a rough, shaggy acre becomes a lawn again in one afternoon. From the road it can look like nothing happened at all, which is exactly right.