Your Neighbor's Mowing

About Your Neighbor's Mowing

There is one good hour in a Forney July, arriving late: the sun drops behind the water tower, the heat finally lets go of the pavement, sprinklers start ticking, and the Jackrabbit field lights are not on yet. Your Neighbor's Mowing keeps the streets it lives on — mowing, edging along the walks and drives, trimming around mailboxes and play sets, and blowing every last clipping back off the concrete before the trailer gate closes. In this soil a lawn will bolt after a June rain and then sulk through August, so the rhythm of the schedule matters more than the size of the machine. By November the oaks and pecans have let go and the work turns to leaf cleanup and cutting the shrubs back for a mild winter. The pride is in the small things: a curb line straight as a chalk mark, and not one blade of green dust left on the neighbor's sidewalk.