Troy is laid out on a mile grid, and the roads keep the count — Fourteen Mile along the south end, South Boulevard at the north, and everything in between measured out in even squares. Advanced Lawn Care works that grid in both directions: mowing, trimming and edging through the green months, plowing and shoveling once the pavement turns white. There is a particular satisfaction in a driveway cleared down to the concrete while the streetlights are still on, and in a cut so even the lines read like ruled paper. Michigan weather does not ask permission here; it comes across the state in gray sheets and leaves the grass soaked or the drive buried. Either way, somebody has to be out in it before the day starts.