HometownMowerS

About HometownMowerS

Thursday afternoon on the streets off Sixth Avenue and up McKinley Hill, you can hear the season by ear: a mower two blocks over, a trimmer closer in, somebody finishing a driveway with a blower. HometownMowerS is part of that sound in Tacoma — mowing, edging, string trimming, hedge trimming, bed weeding, and clearing walks, drives and porches before moving down the road. These are neighborhood lots set close together, where one well-kept yard lifts the whole block a little and everybody quietly notices. The mild wet climate keeps the route running most of the calendar, with cleanups when the leaves arrive and a shorter cut once the ground firms up. Same yards, same day, week after week, is what makes a street look like people live on it.