Applegate lies a few miles in from Lake Huron, out where the Thumb flattens into bean and beet fields and the wind gets an unobstructed run at everything. JR'S Lawncare and Landscaping LLC handles both seasons of that. Summer is mowing, trimming and edging on village lots and farmhouse yards, with cleanups in spring and again once the leaves are down. Winter is plowing and shoveling after the lake throws snow inland and the open roads drift shut between Croswell and Lexington. Sanilac County weather does not negotiate; the work is simply being out in it, before daylight if that is what the storm requires.