September on Clear Lake: the water turns cold before the air does, and the grass around those Waterloo Township cottages puts on its best growth of the year. Sindlinger's Service is out through all of it — mowing, trimming, edging along walks and shoreline paths, and running the autumn cleanup once the maples start dropping. Kettle-lake yards tilt right down to the water, so a lawn on that pitch needs thought about how it is cut and where the clippings finish up. Spring is the reverse job: opening a yard back up after five months under snow. Between the two, an ordinary weekly cut that keeps a lake place looking like somebody loves it.