Weather comes over the Gap into Brandon with its mind already made up — Route 73 will be white long before the Otter Creek meadows are. NGC Property works the year from both ends: plowing driveways and lots, shoveling walks and sanding the slick spots once the cold locks in across the western edge of Rutland County, then mowing, trimming and cleanups after mud season lets go. There is nothing quite like a driveway opened wide and square while it is still dark out. Come July it is grass instead, cut on schedule and edged where it meets the pavement. One town, two trades, and no month of the year without work worth doing.