October on the older blocks off Monaco Street is a two-jobs-at-once month: the elms let go all week, and the ten-day forecast starts sneaking a snowflake onto the end of it. Green Mountain Lawn & Tree Care runs both ends — the last mowings, the edging, leaves gathered and carried off before they turn to a wet mat, and the plow gear gone over for whatever the first real system brings. Then the switch flips and it's drives opened, walks shoveled, de-icer on the steps. This town will hand you seventy-five degrees and a snow squall inside the same week; the trick is being ready for both by the same Friday. Ready is most of the work.