Dew sits heavy in the creek bottoms below Fairfield, and the mowers usually wait it out a while before the first cut of the day. J and K Mowing, LLC runs a steady route through the growing season — mowing, trimming along fence lines and outbuildings, edging drives and walks, and cleaning up so a yard is finished by the time the gate closes. Then the year turns and that same route becomes snow work: plowing driveways, clearing walks and entries, putting salt where a slope and a shadow conspire. Under South Mountain the weather can be local to the mile, so the plan gets made storm by storm. Either way, somebody comes.