La Junta's older blocks near the Koshare museum have deep sidewalks and shade that holds frost well past ten in the morning, which is exactly where winter gets stubborn. Lyle & Son's Plumbing & Heating handles snow removal through those months — plowing driveways and lots, shoveling walks, steps and entryways, and spreading ice melt on the strips that refuse to thaw on their own. Trade work has always meant showing up in bad weather, because bad weather is when it's needed, and snow is no different. Clearing a path to a door on a fifteen-degree morning is small, ordinary, genuinely useful work. The measure of it is a sidewalk somebody can walk without once thinking about their feet.