Hurley sits on flats where the Esopus lays down fresh silt every high spring, ground so willing it grows sweet corn like it has nothing better to do — and lawns right along with it. Big Al Landscaping & All Around Odd Jobs keeps that willingness in hand from the first cut to the last leaf: mowing, trimming, edging, spring and fall cleanups. West of town the Catskills stack up blue and show the weather coming a full hour before it lands, which is reason enough to start the day early. There is real satisfaction in a June yard finished by noon, lines even and the walk swept, the old stone houses on Main Street throwing their long shade. Plain work, and it holds.