There is one week up here when the ice finally goes off Mullett Lake and the whole township exhales. Everything winter dropped is lying in the yard: needles, cones, branches, and five months of sand the plows threw at the shoulder. Fresh Start Yard CO shows up for precisely that — raking it out, hauling it off, taking the first cut of the year low and clean so the grass gets light before the blackflies get ambitious. Then the summer rhythm begins: mowing, trimming, a tight edge along the walk, beds kept clear straight through to leaf drop. The difference between a yard in April and the same yard seven days later is the best part of the job.