August in Glassboro builds all afternoon — heat stacking up, the western sky going bruise-colored, then twenty loud minutes of rain and it is over. Lucas lawn care works the hours ahead of that, moving yard to yard along the neighborhood round, cutting and trimming and edging while the light still holds. The storm passes, the grass drinks it in, and by Thursday every bit of it needs doing again. Clearings at either end of the season handle the rest: the winter flattening in April, the leaves off the lawn before the cold presses them down. A block where every yard is cut looks like a block where the neighbors know one another.