By mid-October the hills above the Chain of Lakes have gone copper, and the first hard freeze becomes a question of days instead of weeks. Otherside Irrigation services works to that calendar in Bellaire, blowing out sprinkler lines before the ground locks up, waking the systems back up in spring, and looking after lawns in between. There is a tidy pleasure in the autumn shutdown: valves closed, lines cleared, nothing left in the pipe to split when the cold comes down for good. Then in May the same system breathes again and the grass answers inside a week. The work covers Bellaire, Central Lake, Alden and Elk Rapids.