Spring on this stretch of St. Clair County announces itself early: a green line of thunderheads out past the fields, sirens tested at noon, and grass that jumps three inches after every rain. Bauer's Care LLC keeps up with it — weekly mowing, trimming and edging, plus cleanups that clear the winter's litter out of the beds and off the lawn. Come December the work flips to plowing driveways and lots, shoveling walks, and spreading salt on the ice that follows every Midwestern thaw. Neither job is complicated; both reward doing it on time and doing it completely. A yard in the growing season, a driveway in January — each handed back in better shape than it was found.