October along the Sturgeon comes down to tamaracks turning gold in the low ground and everyone counting how many warm days are left. Honest lawn care LLC spends it closing yards out around Tuscarora Township — final cuts, leaves and needles taken off the lawn and out of the beds, edges cut back before the first real snow flattens everything. Through the summer it's steady mowing and trimming, week on week, while the grass makes the most of a season that never runs long this far north. A yard raked bare in late fall looks like a finished job because it is one. Come May it wakes up green and even, which is the whole reason to do it properly now.