SchladerScapes spends its summers shaping the entryway plantings and clean bed lines that give Johnston's newer neighborhoods their finished look, and in winter that same attention turns toward keeping those same entrances clear underfoot. A retaining wall or a stone walkway installed in June needs different handling in January — snow pushed the wrong direction can heave a paver edge or bury a bed that took a full season to establish — so this crew plows the properties it already knows by hand. Out toward Saylorville Lake on the town's northern edge, the wind off the open water in winter can be sharper than anywhere else in Johnston, drifting entryways shut that were clear an hour before. The route runs early, before the sun is up enough to soften anything, working from the properties nearest the lake inward toward the older, more sheltered streets. By the time the neighborhood is awake, the walkways look the way they did the day they were laid — clear stone, clean lines, no snow banked against anything that wasn't built to hold it.