Barron Lake sits bright in the middle of Howard Township, and the roads that ring it carry cottages, year-round homes and working properties all inside the same mile. D&L Facilities handles the year on those properties: mowing, trimming, edging and seasonal cleanups while the water is warm, snow plowing, walkway shoveling and ice control once it freezes at the edges. Cass County winters can be soft one week and serious the next, arriving off Lake Michigan without much warning. Keeping a drive open and a walk safe through that swing is plain work done at inconvenient hours, and it counts most on the mornings nobody planned for.