Saturday morning in Freeland: sprinklers ticking, somebody's radio going, the smell of gas and cut grass drifting down the block well before nine. Jeff's Home & Lawn Care works those streets and the roads around Tittabawassee Township with mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups in spring and fall. A tidy yard is a small hospitality — it says the people here are home and paying attention. Village lots sit close together, so an edge that stops exactly where it should matters more here than almost anywhere. Come autumn the maples repay their shade with a solid month of raking.