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Speaker 1: The scraping of a front end plow, slicing through snow

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Speaker 1: and hitting the pavement used to sound like a cash register. Nowadays,

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Speaker 1: in a change in climate, it's basically a struggling side hustle.

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Speaker 2: We seem to be landscaping further into December than we

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Speaker 2: ever have.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Dunovan operates independently with a small crew in Kingston.

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Speaker 1: He's adding landscaping into his repertoire to make up for

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Speaker 1: what used to be steady snowplow cash, not to mention

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Speaker 1: an economy still dealing with inflation.

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Speaker 2: The last couple of years. Obviously, with everything across the board,

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Speaker 2: costs just keep going up.

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Speaker 1: We're in a very cold stretch right now, but the

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Speaker 1: snow still isn't falling. Ryan tells me they make up

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Speaker 1: for it where they can.

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Speaker 2: We can still put plants in the ground, as long

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Speaker 2: as we can put shovels in the ground.

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Speaker 1: Still hoping for a few snowstorms from Mother Nature this winter.

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Speaker 1: From Kingston. Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio