The Slate bridge sits low over the water at the west edge of Swanzey, and by February the whole scene goes to gray, white and woodsmoke. Stacies petcare services LLC plows through that stretch of winter — driveways opened after the snow, walkways and steps cleared, sand and salt on the ice that forms while everyone sleeps. Turnarounds get widened as the banks build, because a January drift has to leave room for a March one. Service comes after each squall and again when the drifting fills back in what was already cleared. There is something to arriving somewhere at dawn and leaving it usable.