The parkway strip between the sidewalk and the curb is the hardest twelve feet of any Thornton lot: baked in July, salted in February, and the first thing anybody sees. MR lawn care treats it as part of the lawn instead of an afterthought — mowed, trimmed at the curb, edged along both lines of concrete. The rest of the property gets the same weekly attention, front and back, with cleanups when the season turns over. These are modest lots on a flat old grid, and modest lots reward precision more than anything else. Cut short, defined and swept, a small yard can carry itself like twice its size.