Out toward Sullivanville the lawns run long and the deer treat them as an open invitation, so somebody has to keep order. Lawn and Order mows a set route through Veteran — cutting, string trimming, edging, and hauling clippings so nothing mats down in the July heat. Chemung County summers get heavy and still; the work goes best before noon, while the air is still moving. The pleasure of it is geometry: parallel passes, a turn that doesn't scuff, a finished yard that looks like a decision instead of an accident. Come evening the fireflies take the field back over.