Lakes Region Property Management keeps the ground along Tuftonboro's stretch of eastern Lake Winnipesaukee, where lawns slope down through pine and white birch toward the water and the Ossipee hills sit blue behind the treeline. Summer is mowing in the long evening light — stripes laid straight to the shore path, the edge along the drive cut clean enough to read from the road. Then the lake goes hard and pale, and the plowing starts in the dark, a driveway opened before the coffee cools and the banks pushed wide off the corners so the mailbox still stands come March. It is honest, repeated work on familiar ground, and it leaves a place looking tended in every month of the year.