By mid-October the frost gets to Surrey Township first thing and burns off by nine, and the maples along the two-tracks go the color of a struck match. Lawns Unlimited & Plowing spends those weeks on the last cuts and the long cleanup: leaves off the lawn and out of the beds, sticks picked up, edges tightened one final time before the ground goes hard. Earlier in the year it's steady mowing and trimming, week after week, through the stretch when the grass near Farwell refuses to quit. There is a specific satisfaction in a yard put to bed properly — bare, tidy, ready to be buried and to come back in April. That's how a season ought to end.