Cut grass carries a long way on a warm Secaucus afternoon — past the oaks of Schmidt's Woods, down the block, in through the screens. Lawn Buddies is out in that afternoon making the smell in the first place, with mowing, edging, trimming and the cleanups that bracket the season. Small properties repay attention: a tidy strip along the fence line, a clean circle cut around the mailbox post, not a clipping left on the sidewalk. It is ordinary work, and it changes how a house reads from the street, which is not an ordinary thing at all.