When the wind comes down off Saginaw Bay in January it crosses these bare fields without meeting a single thing, and by four in the morning the drives along the township roads have filled right back in. BladeSide Lawn Care plows them open, clears the walks, and lays salt where the ice has set up hard. Come April the blade goes away and the mowers come out — weekly cuts, trimming, edging, cleanups at both ends of the green season. Two trades, one property, all twelve months of it. Standing at the end of an opened driveway with the sun not up yet is its own kind of payment.