Out at Vandalia Lake the year announces itself twice: once when the willows go green along the shoreline, and again when the ramps ice over and the wind comes across open water with nothing to slow it. Johnson Brother's Outdoor Service LLC works both halves of that calendar. Warm months mean mowing, trimming, edging and cleanup work; cold months mean plowing driveways and parking areas, opening walks and steps, and salting the spots where ice keeps coming back. The pleasure of this trade is in the line, a true cut edge in July and a clean plowed border in January, each of them saying somebody was here and paid attention. A yard and a drive are the two things a house shows to the road, and both are worth keeping right.