Thaw reaches the Prairie Trail before it reaches anywhere else, the packed path going soft while a whole winter's grit still shows at the road crossings. Sandoval Landscaping Services meets Algonquin at both ends of that change: mowing, trimming, bed care and cleanups once the ground gives, plowing, shoveling and salting once it refuses to. Doing both means nobody is a stranger in February, because the yard raked in November is the driveway opened in January. Weather in this valley can turn on a single afternoon, and being ready for either version of it is the point of the arrangement. Two kinds of labor, one property, held to the same standard.