Moodus keeps its own weather stories, and the village along the Salmon River has never been shy about winter. ARA Property Care answers it with plowing, shoveled walks and salted steps, then comes back around in spring with mowers, trimmers and cleanup crews. East Haddam is a large town made of small settlements — a mile of woods between one dooryard and the next — so a route here is a genuine circuit, dark to dark. What makes it worth the miles is pulling into a place still buried and leaving it open. Come August those same drives are lined with cut grass instead of banks, and the work feels like the other half of one sentence.