A winter storm reaches this corner of Ohio out of the northwest, and it finds the township's driveways at their steepest and darkest. Dempsey Lawn Care runs the plow through those hours so a drive is open and a walk is passable before the first alarm clock goes off anywhere on the road. Once the ground thaws the same trucks come back for mowing, trimming and edging, and for the cleanups that bookend the growing season. Living between two such different kinds of work keeps a person honest about weather in a place where the river fog and the snow squalls both come without much warning. Either way the aim is the same: a property that looks handled, whether that means a clean cut line or a clean pavement.