Jim's Excavating

About Jim's Excavating

In Fort Jennings the land lies level to the Auglaize and the church steeple carries a long way across the fields, which makes a fine landmark on a night when everything else has gone white. Jim's Excavating runs the plow through those nights — driveways and farm lanes, church and business lots, walks shoveled and treated so the first person out the door in the morning never has to think about it. Putnam County snow usually arrives with wind, so the work is not finished at the pile; it is finished when the pass is wide enough that tomorrow's drift has somewhere to go. The best part comes at the end of a round, looking back down a lane that is open end to end with the porch light still burning. Ottoville, Kalida, Columbus Grove and Delphos are on the same route.