By the middle of July the cicadas are loud enough to hear over an engine, and the backyards off Jernee Mill Road grow half an inch a day whether anyone is watching or not. Jack's Mowing & More keeps up with them: weekly mowing, trimming around swing sets and sheds and fence posts, edging the walk until the pavement shows again. Sayreville summers run humid enough that grass forgives nothing — miss a week and you are cutting hay. Cleanups handle the ends of the year, the raking and hauling that make the easy months possible in between. The best part of the job is shutting the mower off and looking back across it.