By late October the yards in Guilford are ankle-deep in maple and ash, and everything wants carting away at once. Reed & Sons Rubbish Removal works the lawn side of that season and the ones before it — mowing through the summer, then the autumn haul-out of leaves, brush piles and whatever the wind left in the hedge. Down in Algiers the yards sit flat and close together; out past the Country Store they run to acres and old fencelines, and the job changes shape along with them. Clean grass, an empty dooryard, nothing left to trip over before the snow comes — that is the whole of the ambition. It is plain work, and it looks wonderful when it is finished.