In Missoula the grass grows hardest in the gaps — along the gravel alleys off Scott Street, against fence posts and rail berms where a mower deck will never reach. That is the ground The Weed Eater Guys claim first. Trimming and edging, then the cut, then the blow-down that hands back a sidewalk with a clean line on both sides of it. In July the light holds past nine over Waterworks Hill, and a yard finished late in the day keeps its stripes into the cool of the evening. There is a plain satisfaction in a curb edged sharp enough that you can see exactly where the lawn decides to stop.