Freight still comes through DeKalb on the line beside the highway, and the grain elevator throws a long shadow over the east side in the morning. Gamez Lawn Service & Landscaping keeps its own schedule against that one: mowing, edging, trimming and cleanups from thaw to hard frost, then plowing, shoveling and salting once the county goes over to winter. Both halves of the year come down to showing up on time — grass does not wait, and neither does a storm off the open ground. A driveway opened before the workday starts is the cold-weather version of a lawn cut before the weekend. Same trucks, same streets, different weather.