Summer afternoons the creek through downtown Golden fills with boats and inner tubes, and the lawns along the bank take a beating from all the traffic they carry. Reed Services LLC keeps up with it — mowing, trimming, edging, cleanups at either end of the season — then swaps the deck for a blade once the town goes quiet and white. Storms here do not ask permission; they land overnight and want handling by six in the morning. Opening a drive and a walk before the day begins is the plainest usefulness there is. Golden, Lakewood, Arvada and Wheat Ridge.