Out past the city limits a driveway can be a quarter mile of gravel running between two fields, and in February the wind fills it in end to end. Snow work here means plowing lanes that long, opening turnarounds wide enough for a truck to swing, shoveling the walks at the house and salting where ice sets up first. Summer trades the blade for the deck — mowing big open yards, trimming around outbuildings and posts, edging whatever concrete there is, and cleanups at both ends of the season. Country places take more ground and more time, and that is the work chosen on purpose. Dixon, Harmon, Compton, Lee and the townships between.