Winter in Randolph County can be a mean, glassy business, a night of freezing rain and then a hard grey morning with everything welded shut. Merchant Guild LLC works both sides of that year: plowing drives and lots, clearing walkways, laying salt where ice keeps coming back, then mowing, trimming and edging once the ground turns green again. Out in the precinct the driveways are long and the wind has nothing to stop it, so a storm fills things in exactly where it pleases. Getting a place open by first light is the whole point of being out at all. In summer those same properties get the same attention, blades down instead of a plow.