Hawthorne Excavating

About Hawthorne Excavating

The clearest, coldest nights around here come just after the snow quits — sky wide open over the fields, everything gone blue-white, the thermometer dropping like a stone. Hawthorne Excavating is out in that hour, plowing driveways and lots around Somerset, cutting the banks back from the road so the next storm has somewhere to go, salting walks before the melt gets a chance to refreeze. Saline County has a lot of long private drives, and a long drive is a commitment: down and back, down and back, until it stands open end to end. There is a quiet in the middle of that work only the people doing it ever hear. Then daylight, and a row of open drives, and everybody free to go about their business.