In Coventry, winter arrives off Coventry Lake first — a raw wind that skims the open water and stiffens every driveway on the hills above it. Clean Cut Lawn and Snow Service Inc. rises into that dark to plow, scraping the frozen lanes clear before the town has stirred, so the first thing a morning offers is a road you can trust. When the thaw finally loosens the old stone walls and the sugar maples cloud green, the same hands trade the blade for the mower, laying clean stripes across yards that roll with the land. There is a plain, honest pride in the after: a drive cut down to the pavement, a lawn edged sharp against the walk, a patch of Tolland County ground kept trim from one hard freeze to the next.