Spring in Milton starts as noise — meltwater in the ditches, the falls below the village running loud and brown, everything letting go at once. Cold River Enterprises LLC meets that season with rakes and mowers: cleanups that pull winter's sand and matted leaves off a lawn, then the first cut that makes a yard look alive again. Come November the equipment changes and the hours move to the dark end of the clock, with plowing, shoveling and sanding for driveways and walks across town. Mowing, trimming, leaf work, snow — the full circuit of a Vermont property. The reward is the same either way: a place made ready before it's needed.