Every year around late October, Johnstown makes the same turn: the cottonwoods let go along the ditch banks, the mowing route gets shorter, and the next blade to come out is a plow. Ace of Blades Lawn and Landscaping keeps both ends of that year — mowing, trimming and yard cleanups while the season runs, then plowing driveways, shoveling walks and pushing the drifts back once winter takes over. Snow here arrives wet and heavy in March or fine as sifted flour in January, and both kinds have to be gone before the workday begins. Warm months, the pleasure is a sharp edge and an even cut; cold months, it's a driveway opened clean to the pavement. The route runs through Johnstown, Milliken and the country roads between them.