December dark comes down over Loveland at half past four, and if a storm has moved through, the walks are what decide whether a house is really open. LawnPro spends those short days on snow — plowing driveways, shoveling steps, walks and porches, and putting down ice control where the melt runs and refreezes. Between town and the smaller places just south, Campion and Berthoud, the routes sit close together and the work goes address to address until it is finished. A shoveled step at six in the morning is a small thing that rearranges somebody's entire day. When the sky clears and the sun handles the rest, the crew is already staged for the next one.