Half the pleasure of a place near the Clare County lakes is pulling in on a Friday and finding the yard already looking after itself. Hometown Property Services makes that true around Surrey Township — grass cut on schedule whether or not anyone is home, trimming at the shed and along the path down to the water, beds kept clear, cleanups at both ends of the season. June evenings out here stretch on until the mosquitoes win, and a mown yard buys back every one of those hours for something better than yard work. The passes go down the same direction each week so the lawn keeps its habit. Arriving to find it done is most of the point.