The wooded drives south of Cass Road are narrow, curved and lined with hemlock that dumps its load the moment the wind shifts — the sort of place where clearing snow is as much reading the lot as pushing the blade. Timber Tech Handyman works those December dusks, when the light goes blue at four-thirty and the plow's own headlights are the brightest thing for a quarter mile. A drive gets opened end to end, the turnaround gets widened, and the steps and walk get shoveled so nobody has to guess where the edge is. Then it is on to the next one, and, if the sky keeps at it, back around again before morning. In this part of Grand Traverse County, that is simply what winter asks.