Hopkinton is dooryards, gravel roads and a great deal of open sky — Fort Jackson at one crossroads, Nicholville down the way, farmland and woodlot filling the space between. FennsAllAround Handyman svcs mows across that spread, keeping lawns cut, trimming around porches, posts, propane tanks and fence lines, and hauling off the yard debris a St. Lawrence County spring turns up. The grass comes on fast once the frost is out and does not let up until August, so the route runs steadily right through it. There is a plain pleasure in backing out of a driveway with the yard tidy behind you and the mower still ticking as it cools. Country properties take real ground to keep, and keeping them is the work.