Past the south edge of Midland the subdivisions give way to Bullock Creek country — farmhouse lawns, long drives, ditch banks that need a pass of their own. Hands for Hire Lawn Service takes that on through the growing months, mowing and trimming acreage a push mower would never finish. Come winter the same drives get plowed, some of them a couple hundred feet of open ground where snow drifts right back in behind the truck. Walks are shoveled, the turnaround is opened wide enough to swing a trailer, and salt goes where it counts. Country properties ask for more, and that is the appeal of them.