In January the wind runs unbroken across the fields around Deer Creek and lays the snow in long drifts over the blacktop. Zehr Property Maintenance is out in it before the school buses run, plowing driveways, opening lanes, and clearing walks and steps so a door can be answered without wading. There's real pleasure in coming back down a road you cleared an hour ago and finding it still holding. Warm months turn the same properties over to mowing, trimming, edging and cleanup, with the grass climbing fast in that black ground. One outfit for both halves of the calendar, for Deer Creek and the farm roads that run out from it.