A piece of ground that has been properly looked after pays its people back in small daily mercies: a drive that sheds the rain instead of holding it, a slope that stays where it was put when the wind comes salted off the Sakonnet, a wall that simply stands and keeps standing. Rego Earthworks, Inc. works out of Little Compton, where hayfields run down to the water and old stone lines cut the pasture into quiet rooms, and the work here is the deep kind — excavation and demolition, septic installations and repairs, drainage and grading, retaining walls, hardscapes and water features, hydroseeding and erosion control, sea wall revetment. Most of it vanishes the moment it is finished, which is rather the point; you notice it only in the years afterward, when nothing washes out and nothing sinks. Winter brings its own plain satisfaction — snow moved off a drive while the fields are still blue with early light, an edge cut clean down to gravel. Across Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, it is unglamorous, physical, lasting work, and the land wears it well.