Snow here does not so much fall as blow in off the water in bands, and one band can fill a driveway between supper and the alarm clock. A-1 Outdoor Maintenance, LLC. keeps a Petoskey schedule to match: plowing and shoveling done in the dark hours so the drive is open before anyone has to think about it, salt on the pitches that would otherwise send a car sideways. When the ground finally softens, the same trucks come back for mowing, trimming and cleanups, hauling off whatever winter left behind. There is a real satisfaction in that handoff — the last gray pile shrinking while the first green week arrives. Two kinds of work, one property, all the way around the calendar.