gslawncareservices

About gslawncareservices

Garrison stands a few miles from the reservoir the dam downstream created, Lake Sakakawea running west for better than a hundred miles behind an earthen wall built to hold back the Missouri, and by January that whole enormous stretch of water lies locked under ice the town's summer boat ramps just point toward instead of into. gslawncareservices clears the driveways and in-town streets through that quiet season, working the rolling hills that ring the reservoir where drifts build deep in the low spots between them and stay firm long after a plow has been through elsewhere. McLean County's winters run at a different pace from its summers — no boat trailers on Highway 37, no lines at the ramps, just gravel roads and driveways to keep open for a town that spends its cold months this way. A driveway scraped clean against that much white, dam and reservoir both hidden under snow and ice, is a small, plain marker that the town is still moving through winter. It is patient, exact work, and it gets done until the whole town can move again — back to waiting on the ice to go out and the walleye to start biting.