Wonderful young men!!!! And how lucky you were to get to see the snow fairies!!
My BIL had a plumbing, heating, air conditioning business. Every year in the fall old ladies would start calling him to clean and light their furnaces. Most of them lived on a very limited budget. When they'd pull out their check books he'd say, "Oh, this is just a service I do, there's no charge." When his son started mowing lawns, he passed a list of his 'just a service ladies' to his son and said, "don't ever let these ladies pay, they can't afford it" now the grandson is mowing and shoveling snow. Many of the names have changed throughout the years but they still have a "just a service" list. Even though my BIL has retired he still cleans and lights the furnaces. Imagine my surprise when my great nephew showed up at our house a few years ago when dh was having some health issues and I found out that we were on the "just a service" list that year.
I think that there are good people everywhere we just don't hear about them enough.