When the star goes up on the mountain above town, Palmer Lake trades one kind of work for another. Sticky Nicky's Mowing and Property Services spends the warm half of the year on mowing, trimming and the general upkeep a property keeps asking for, and the cold half taking snow off those same drives and walks. Summer up here is short and generous — long light, afternoon storms rolling off the peaks, grass that grows hard in July and quits by September. Winter is longer and asks a different sort of showing up, usually before anyone else is awake. Palmer Lake, Monument, Gleneagle and Woodmoor keep both halves of the year busy.