The Tobacco River winds through this part of Gladwin County in slow bends, cottonwood and willow crowding the banks, and the land beside it has been worked by hand a long while. Universal Projects takes on the yard side of that work around Beaverton: mowing, trimming and seasonal cleanups while things are growing, and snow taken off drives and walks once they aren't. There is a plain pleasure in a lawn brought back to order after a stretch of rain, and in pavement cut clean to the surface in January. The list changes with the calendar; the standard behind it doesn't. Whatever the month asks for, the property gets it.