Garner's courthouse square anchors the middle of Hancock County, brick storefronts on all four sides and a scatter of custom-built homes on the streets radiating out from it, the kind of houses built one at a time rather than in a subdivision run. Pringnitz Custom built a fair share of those homes, and the same attention to a specific lot's grading carries over once winter sets in — a driveway poured to slope a particular way needs to be plowed with that slope in mind, not just scraped flat. Open country surrounds Garner on every side, and wind off that cropland can bury a custom driveway's decorative apron just as fast as a plain one, so getting it cleared back to its original lines matters as much as getting it cleared at all. Pushing the snow off the square's lots and the custom-home streets alike, then salting where the courthouse's shade keeps ice hanging on, is a small town's worth of careful work. Building work in summer, snow work in winter — reading a lot's lines doesn't change with the calendar.