North of Townsend the land runs up toward the New Hampshire line, and the Nissitissit slips out of it clear and stony. J. Coutu's Outdoor Services LLC works both halves of the year on the properties in between — mowing, trimming and edging from April onward, cleanups in spring and fall, leaves cleared out ahead of the freeze. Then the plows go on. Driveways get opened, walkways shoveled, sand or salt set down on the icy stretch by the door. Twelve months, two kinds of weather, and the same yards looked after in both.