Ironton lies along the Ohio at the very bottom of the state, hills at its back and Kentucky's shoreline lights across the water. Andrew's Lawn Maintenance LLC mows and trims through the long southern-Ohio growing season — March to November some years — edging walks and clearing the yard after a river-valley thunderstorm has had its say. Snow is rarer down here, which is exactly why it stops everything when it does arrive; the plow and the shovels go out to open drives and walks on hollow roads that ice before anything else in the county. A cleared driveway on a hill street in Lawrence County is worth a great deal to whoever has to get down it. Ironton, Coal Grove, South Point, Chesapeake and the hollows above town are the range.