Mammoth plowing

About Mammoth plowing

Wind coming off Lake Waconia has miles of open ice to gather speed, and by February it will rebuild a drift across a Laketown driveway faster than you can finish a cup of coffee. So the plowing starts early and comes back around: drives, farm approaches, lots, the wide turnarounds out among the orchard rows and hobby fields. Walks and steps come clear right down to the concrete, and the shaded patches get treated before they can turn into a skating rink. There is something plainly good about a black driveway in a white township at sunrise — no ruts, no ridge across the end, nothing between a truck and the road. Carver County winters run long enough that the small things count, and this is one of them.