A property that gets looked after gives something back every day — the clean line of a cut lawn seen from the kitchen window, a dooryard that drains instead of puddling, a drive you can walk to the car on without thinking twice about it. FJC Landscaping & Excavation works that trade out of Rye, where the Atlantic pushes salt air up over the stone walls and the scrub pine, and grass comes in thick and green between the ledge. Their crews mow and maintain properties through the growing months, rake and haul the leaves down when the oaks finally let go, and plow the driveways clear in winter; on the excavation side they cut house lots, run site work and utilities, set septic systems, build retaining walls, take on demolition, road work, parking lot and yard expansions, and site development. It is the kind of labor that leaves something you can stand on afterward — a graded lot waiting for a foundation, a wall holding a bank in place, a lawn keeping its edge right to the road. They range from Rye across the New Hampshire Seacoast and down into the North Shore of Massachusetts.