Harvest is the loud season in Aledo — grain trucks on Route 17 all day, dust hanging gold over the elevators until dark. Skinner Landscaping works the quieter margins of it: the fall cleanups, the last mowings that get shorter as the light does, the trimming and edging that carry a yard tidy into November. Then the wind swings around to the north and the job becomes plowing, shoveling and putting down salt before anybody's headlights come on. A driveway opened at five in the morning is a small thing that changes an entire day out here. That is the trade, and it is worth doing well, one Mercer County place at a time.