Late August evening near Dollarville, the light goes long and gold across the plains and the mowing gets easier as the heat lets go. Richard’s Mowing Svc runs the village lots and township drives then — mowing on a regular turn, trimming the corners a deck cannot reach, edging walks, cleanups when the season opens and shuts. Sandy northern ground grows grass in fits, so the cut is read to the lawn rather than the calendar. A tidy yard this far north says somebody is home and paying attention. That is the whole message, mowed into the grass.