Out past Trout Creek the road narrows and the hayfields come right down to the shoulder, every farmhouse holding a lawn cut out of them. Austens General labor handles that lawn work through the Delaware County summer — mowing, trimming around fence lines and outbuildings, edging, and hauling brush and leaves in the cleanup seasons. Grass grows hard and fast up in these hills once the nights warm, then quits early when September cools them again. Squaring a big farmhouse yard back up after a wet stretch, fence line to fence line, is good afternoon work. Tompkins, Trout Creek, Walton and Deposit are all on the list.