September mornings collect fog in the field ditches around Spaulding, and it lifts off the windbreak rows about the time the first mower starts. The Tending Co works that hour — mowing, trimming and edging, weeding and bed maintenance, seasonal cleanups when the year turns over. Tending is the right word for it: a lawn is not a project that finishes, it is something you come back to. The same yard, week after week, held steady through a Saginaw Valley summer until October takes the leaves and closes the season out. Bridgeport, Saginaw and the township roads between them make up the round.