The first cut of the year in Fords always lands a week after everyone thinks it should — April is damp here, and the ground needs time to firm up. Tanner Landscape & Design starts then, working the neighborhoods around Ford Avenue: mowing, trimming, edging, and the spring cleanup that pulls a winter's worth of grit out of the beds and off the turf. A lawn that gets its borders recut in April holds that shape all summer. The route settles into a weekly rhythm by May and keeps it straight through the heat. Nothing complicated about it — grass, cut on time, finished at the borders.