At four in the morning, out toward the Cass County line, the only things moving are the plows and the deer. J&L enterprise corporation LLC runs snow work in Niles Township: plowing drives and lots, shoveling walks and steps, and treating the ice that forms when a thaw refreezes overnight. Bands coming off Lake Michigan can drop more on one road than on the next in the space of a mile, so the route gets rebuilt on the fly and nobody gets skipped. The best part of this job never gets seen — somebody walks out at six, finds the drive open and the walk gritted, and simply leaves for work. That is the whole ambition: winter, made ordinary.