Head north out of Amsterdam and the valley narrows toward the Adirondack foothills, farms giving way to woodlots and long gravel driveways. The first mow of May up that way is the loud one: grass thick from a wet April, the deck set high, an entire yard changing shape in one afternoon. Randys mowing services keeps those properties cut straight through the summer with mowing, trimming and cleanups, week after week, until the color drains out of the season. There is an honesty to mowing — you can see precisely what you did, and so can everyone else. Plain work, done right, is what this end of Montgomery County has always run on.