The coldest hour in Northville Township is the one before anybody is awake, and that is when MC5 Lawn Services is already rolling down Five Mile with the blade down. Drives get opened wide enough for two cars to pass, walks shoveled clean to the step, a scatter of salt on the apron where ice always sets up first. The work is loud and cold and finished long before the neighborhood stirs. The reward arrives secondhand: a garage door goes up at seven, a car backs out without a thought, and the morning simply happens. Storm after storm, that is the whole ambition.