A yard that has been shaped well keeps paying you back — a patio that pulls everyone outside after supper, a walkway that stays true underfoot, a drive that sheds water instead of holding it. Kanon Construction LLC works that ground in Deerfield, New Hampshire, where the hills roll up toward Pawtuckaway and old stone walls still run off through the hardwoods, marking lines somebody set by hand. Their days swing between the heavy end and the fine end: site work, grading, drainage, foundations, septic installation, utility trenching and yard expansion, then the patios, walkways, pool decks, retaining walls, fire pits, granite steps and outdoor kitchens that turn raw dirt into somewhere to sit. Plantings, irrigation and new lawn or sod go in last, and the green closes over the seam until you would never know the machines had been there. Come winter, they clear snow off those same drives and lots — Deerfield, Hooksett, southern New Hampshire, the Lakes Region and out to the Seacoast.