You can tell the time of year in Brooks Township by what carries across the fields — mower engines in August, a blade scraping down a gravel drive in January. J'S lawn service LLC answers to both. Warm months mean mowing, string trimming, edging and getting the walks cleared off. Cold months mean plowing driveways, shoveling steps, and sanding or salting where a slope would rather send a car toward the ditch. Down near the creek bottoms and the pines the ground stays shaded and soft well into spring, so the first cuts get taken gently. Either way the aim is a property somebody can actually use: walk out, drive out, no argument with the weather.