Alex is a small grid of streets down in the Washita bottoms, wheat country on one side and river timber on the other. After a spring rain the grass out here can double overnight, and Alex’s Lawn Service 918 LLC shows up for that surge — mowing, running the fence lines, cutting back the drives the bermuda keeps trying to cross. The wind comes hard out of the south most afternoons, so cleanup means genuinely clearing the clippings and not letting the breeze do half the job. By July the ground draws tight and dry and the cut goes higher to hold whatever moisture is left in it. Out here the weather writes the schedule, and the mowing keeps up with what it writes.