Meredith sits where Waukewan's water slips down the old mill channel into the bay, and the ground around it has opinions — ledge close under the topsoil, hills that keep their shade until midmorning, driveways pitched hard toward the lake. NH Dirt & Snow Pros works that ground on both sides of the year: excavation, grading and site preparation once the frost lets go, hydroseed and sod to bring a raw slope back to grass, hardscapes and softscapes, and mowing and edging through the long green weeks of a Lakes Region summer. When winter takes the Lakes Region back, the same crew runs snow plowing and ice management across driveways, parking lots and commercial properties from Center Harbor and Moultonborough down through Gilford, Laconia and New Hampton. There is a real satisfaction in it — a seeded slope knitting over bare fill by August, a lot squared clean to its corners while the flakes are still falling, and the first car of the morning finding pavement where there should have been a foot of snow.