There is a week each October when the maples over Adrian's older streets let go all at once. CJ's Lawn Care Service LLC works straight through it, raking and hauling leaves, finishing the last mowings, cutting one final clean edge before the ground goes hard. Then the weather turns and the tools change: plow, shovel, salt, and drives opened while the streetlights are still burning. Lenawee winters trade off between quiet snowfall and a squall that comes across the fields sideways, and both get the same answer — clear it, then clear it again if it needs it. Adrian and the towns beside it are on the route either way.