South of Jackson the road runs past hay ground and small lakes, and the Irish Hills begin to shoulder up along the southern horizon. Chewy's Stump Grinding L.L.C. covers that stretch out of Napoleon — tree removal when the tree itself has become the problem, trimming to lift a crown off a roofline, and the grinding that erases what a removal leaves behind. There is something satisfying about a stump: it looks permanent right up until it isn't, and then there's a pile of chips and a soft spot ready for soil. Fall suits the job around here, with the ground dry and the mower put away. By the following June nobody can point to where it was.