Mr. Mow-it All

About Mr. Mow-it All

By mid-June the cicadas in Pearl crank up around two in the afternoon and never let off, and the heat settles onto the yards like a flat hand. Mr. Mow-it All works right through it: mowing, edging, string trimming, clearing the drive, then the ditch bank and the fence line and the strip of grass nobody else bothers with. The name doubles as the job description — all of it cut, not most of it. Rankin County grass will take a yard back inside a fortnight if you give it room, so the route runs steady and the corners get the same attention as the front lawn. Late in the day, with the light softening over turf mowed end to end, the whole place looks a size larger than it did.