March along the Fourche Maline is mud and new green at the same time, the bottoms waking while the old coal-camp hills are still bare. Pritchard Services opens the year there with first mows, winter debris cleanup, trimming and edging on Wilburton lots that have gone dormant and shaggy. Grass in these creek bottoms comes on fast and uneven, so the early cuts do the most to set a yard's shape for the whole summer. It is satisfying work: a lawn that looked abandoned at breakfast looks tended by mid-afternoon. From there the rounds settle into a rhythm that carries until the frost shuts it down.