Joes Boys and Sons

About Joes Boys and Sons

Weather comes to Dillsburg from the west, over the ridge, and you can usually see it an hour before it lands. Joes Boys and Sons watches for it the way the farms do, then heads out while the town is still dark — plows down, driveways first, then the lots, then the walks and steps where people actually put their feet. Salt and de-icer at the shaded corners that never see sun in January. It is plain work: move the snow, make the ground safe, come back when the wind fills the pass back in. By breakfast the cars roll out like nothing happened, which is the whole idea.