Lawn Raiders

About Lawn Raiders

By two o'clock on an August afternoon the Gulf sends its weather inland, and Montgomery gets twenty loud minutes of rain and then steam rising off the asphalt. Lawn Raiders plans around it — cutting early, saving the shady side of the street for last, coming back the moment a lawn dries enough to cut clean instead of tearing. After a storm week the grass jumps, and mowing, edging and string trimming turn from routine into a real chase across town. The payoff is the same every time: a yard brought from shaggy back to sharp in an hour, the walk swept, the smell of cut grass hanging in wet air. Weekly and biweekly routes are what keep most lawns from ever getting away in the first place.