October fog lies on the water below Grafton until mid-morning, and somewhere out in it a towboat calls. Patriot Property Services, LLC. spends those weeks closing out the mowing season and putting yards to bed, cutting, trimming, edging and hauling off whatever the wind brings down, with one eye on the first hard frost. Then the plows go on and the work becomes driveways, lots and walkways cleared and salted while the town is still dark. A river town takes its weather from every direction; the answer is simply to be there before it matters. Little compares to a shoveled step and a swept apron of pavement at the top of a Grafton drive.