South of Pekin the ground turns sandy and light, and once April warms it, things come up fast. Green Thumb / Green Finger Enterprises LLC works both ends of that calendar — mowing, trimming, edging and yard cleanup while the growing lasts, plowing and shoveling once it does not. A yard answers to steady attention more than to anything dramatic: cut on time, cleaned up after, kept level from one week to the next. In January the same habit becomes a drive opened before breakfast and a walk cleared right to the step. Different tools, one way of going about it.