The soil up here is black and deep — old drained swamp country, some of the flattest farmland in Ohio — and it grows grass with the same enthusiasm it grows corn. Casey's Lawn Care keeps up with it across Amboy Township, mowing on schedule, trimming close, edging the walks, and clearing yards in spring and again after leaf-fall. There's a plainspoken pleasure in cutting straight passes on ground that is genuinely straight. Storms come across open country with plenty of warning out here, and the week gets arranged around them. What's left behind is simple: tidy, even, finished.