Some spring afternoons the west goes the color of rust and the wind picks up half the Panhandle and carries it through town; Lubbock knows the taste of a dust day. Lira Lawn Service works the calm that follows — clearing grit off the walks and drives, mowing and edging and trimming a yard back into focus once the air has settled. Everything in this county has to be cleaned up after the wind is done rearranging it, and that is fully half of keeping a lawn on the caliche. There is a genuine pleasure in the before-and-after: a place that looked hopeless at four o'clock looking sharp by six. The plains take a yard apart, and somebody has to put it back together.