Parsons Pro Service keeps two calendars. One belongs to summer at Goguac Lake, when the water throws light back up into the yards along the shore roads and the grass grows faster than anyone plans for — mowing, trimming, edges kept true week after week. The other belongs to February, when a west wind carries Lake Michigan's leftovers this far inland and a driveway disappears between supper and morning. Plowing then, and shoveling the strip of walk a blade can never reach, so the day still starts on time. Battle Creek asks both things of the same crew, and both are worth doing well.