Out toward Black Forest the ponderosas catch the snow and drop it in heavy shelves, and the driveways run long and gravelled between them. Oliver's Homestead Services takes on that kind of winter — plowing the whole length of a drive, opening the turnaround, breaking the drift that always forms where the trees give way to open ground. Gates, propane fills, mailboxes and the path to the shed all matter as much as the road here, so they get cleared too. A house set back a quarter mile is only as reachable as somebody makes it. When the plow is done and the walks are shovelled, the place feels connected to the world again.