Tired and completely over today, I skirted the side of Petunia's after I parked in the driveway-noting the car that had been outside was long gone, thankfully, though that didn't mean I'd miss out on a ticket-and headed up the sidewalk. We'd converted the lawn between the two houses into a parking lot to circumvent the increasingly irritating town rules about cars on the street, making for a bit of an unsightly curb appeal but keeping me from being cited regularly for illegal use of curbside space.