Butler Excavating

About Butler Excavating

The west wind reaches Almira Township after a long run across Lake Michigan, and it arrives carrying everything it picked up on the way. Out past the village, where sand roads thread between woodlots, that snow doesn't so much fall as stack — a low white dune building across the open ground from one stand of maple to the next. Butler Excavating meets those mornings with the blade down, cutting back to gravel until a driveway looks like a driveway again. The satisfaction is in the last pass, the one that squares the corner by the mailbox and leaves the banks tucked neat. Around Lake Ann, snow removal is less a chore than a rhythm, and this outfit keeps time with it.