By October the combines are working the fields around Ovid Township and the light goes long and low across everything by four in the afternoon — which happens to be exactly when a mowing pattern shows best. Tj's Custom Lawns LLC puts real thought into the cut: stripes that run with the shape of the lot, edges snapped clean along the drive, trim work that finishes the picture rather than merely clearing the grass. Leaves get pulled off in fall and winter's litter gets raked away in spring, so the pattern always has good canvas under it. Farm-country yards are big enough that the layout matters and the payoff is visible from the road. Ovid, Elsie and the townships around them get the same approach.