In February the wind crosses the open ground near the Tittabawassee with nothing at all to slow it, and a driveway that was clear at midnight can wear a fresh ridge of drift by six. Aeders Lawncare works both ends of the Saginaw year — plowing, shoveling walks and putting down salt when the valley locks up, then mowing, trimming and edging once it thaws and the grass gets going. Flat country makes snow a moving target, so a route is judged by what it looks like an hour after the pass, not during it. The last look back is the good part: pavement dark and wet, the walk swept, the drift pushed off to a corner where it cannot blow back in. Come May the same properties get the same attention, with a blade traded for a mower.