Every yard needs a regular appointment, and the same rules apply as in any barber's chair: even all around, tight at the edges, nothing left ragged behind the ears. The Yard Barbers LLC mows, trims and edges across Essex on that schedule, follows the leaves down in the fall, and clears driveways and walks once the snow starts stacking up along the street. A Friday-afternoon cut before a weekend at home is one of the small pleasures of a Vermont summer, the smell of it, the stripes, the walkway showing its full edge again. Winter's version is a drive plowed clean and a path shoveled wide from the door to the car. It is neighborhood work, done house by house, in Essex, Essex Junction and out toward Jericho.