In July a Hobart yard tells you plainly how it has been treated: the watered ones hold their color and the rest go the shade of the road. Hobart Water Treatment Plant takes the early hours for mowing, when the pavement has cooled a little and the grass is still holding moisture, cutting high enough that the turf shades its own roots through the afternoon. Visits run mowing, string trimming, edging along the curb and drive, and weed control so nothing gets a foothold in the thin spots. Kiowa County heat is a long test, and a lawn passes it by being fed, cut on time and never scalped. There is quiet pride in driving off past a green stripe of yard on a street of brown ones, walks swept, the edge running true.