A&P lawncare and snowplowing

About A&P lawncare and snowplowing

There is a week every October when the maples along Division Street let go all at once and the gutters fill overnight. A&P lawncare and snowplowing catches that turn from both sides — hauling leaves off terraces and out of beds while the mowers are still running, then trading the deck for a blade before the first hard freeze sets in. Winter in central Wisconsin does not negotiate: a clipper drops out of the northwest, lays six inches across the flat streets of Stevens Point, and driveways need to be open by the time the coffee is poured. Plowing, the walk shoveled to the door, salt on the apron where it glazes over. The pleasure is in the handoff — the last good mow of fall and the first clean plow of winter done by the same hands.