Goshen keeps time by hoofbeats, the trotters working the dirt oval on summer mornings before the heat arrives. Allegro Landscaping starts about then too, mowers off the trailer while the grass is still cool and cutting clean. Tempo is most of this work: come back on schedule and a lawn never looks like it needed you; miss two weeks and everyone on the street can tell. Winter switches the beat — driveways plowed, walks cleared, salt on the shaded stretches that hold ice past noon. Same village, same insistence on keeping to the count.