The hill up through Stambaugh will tell you the season faster than a calendar can. Stine-O-Mite Home Services works both ends of the Iron River year: mowing, trimming and yard cleanups while the ground is soft, plowing, shoveling and salting once it isn't. Late April up here can still hand you four inches overnight, so the blades stay mounted long after the rest of the country has moved on to tulips. Out by Runkle Lake the wind loads drifts across the open stretches, and those get pushed back before the coffee finishes brewing. A cleared walk and an even-cut lawn are the same promise, made in different weather.