There is an hour before dawn in January when Route 49 runs empty and the only sound anywhere is a blade finding pavement. SJ Landscaping & Lawncare LLC works that hour — driveways, walks and lots opened and salted, so the first person out the door in the morning steps onto bare ground where the storm had been. The rest of the year runs the opposite direction: cutting through the long green stretch from April past the last warm week of October, trimming, edging, and carrying leaves off before they smother the turf. Weather here can flip between snow and rain inside a night, so the truck stays loaded and the route stays flexible. Come the thaw, the same yards near Sunset Lake get cleaned out, mown and squared off at the curb. Same care, two different temperatures.