The first dry week of March is a small local holiday — the ground firms up, the back yards of Uppertown stop squelching, and everything that has been growing quietly all winter suddenly needs cutting. GoopScoop works those yards: mowing, trimming the corners a mower can't reach, and clearing away what the wet months piled up. It is unglamorous work with a very clear result — you can stand at the back door afterward and see the whole yard again. The rain will be back inside the week; the point is that the yard is ready for it. Astoria and the Clatsop County towns just around it are the beat.