Up-valley toward Pittston the Susquehanna makes its slow bends, and the ground beside it stays generous, which is why August lawns there still have something left in them when the rest of the month has gone brown. Waslin & Sons Landscaping cuts through that heat — mowing, running the trimmer along fences and foundations, edging the walk so the whole yard squares up. It is the kind of work where more than one pair of hands turns a long afternoon into a good one. Spring means clearing out everything winter buried; October means staying ahead of the leaves until the last of them are off the grass. The measure of it all is a property that looks the same on the second Tuesday of September as it did in June.