M-30 runs north out of Midland into the open country around Hope, past section-line roads and barns set back behind their windbreaks. Delisle Excavating & Lawn Care follows the year through that landscape: mowing, trimming and edging while the grass is running, cleanups at both ends of the season, then plowing, shoveling and ice control once the fields go white and the wind has all winter to work. Rural drives up here are long, and a long drive left unplowed is a house that can't leave. Cutting one open before daylight is a good way to start a morning. The same property, mowed straight in August and opened up in February, is the reason for doing both.