give us a little bit of you've been here now for how long here owners of the country store we've been here six months now we bought it in the middle of the summer and just trying to bring in the changes that we wish to as well as keep the fun stuff that folks look forward to yeah they come here yeah well tell us about some of the changes that you brought with you well of course we had the back outside right yeah and we're trying to enhance the menu with more daily specials just better diner choices ok and utilize the back and the dining room for folks to come in and enjoy a good meal so that's kind of a kind of a pick up i mean in the village here back in october so we thank you for dissipating in that our pleasure but so you have some as part of the restaurant here so the daily daily specials you want to run through a little bit of the menu of what you what your service yeah we do monday through friday we have specials so a lot of the folks who come here for lunch currently are workers and they're looking for something that's filling and a good value and so that's what we have in the we may a pulled pork sandwich that's what we had you open in the morning five am wow monday through friday yeah yeah i did know that you get a pretty good crowd at letters you know guys out headed to work grab their coffee and paper what have you got right and then and then the dining room starts filling up probably at six actually doesn't really it does with still getting into traffic of oil and gas folks coming through here or not not as many right now but i suppose some money in there they're coming back in e fifty fifty we know you lot of folks eating here and also eating in there and their ride to the next job you know right yeah yeah i know there's some regulars and i think later on we hope to bring back the folks from the community t to do to talk to some of the local historians that kind of gather here this is kind of a gathering spot for this part of peter's township it really is yeah yeah it's surprised me we love the store on first look but i was a little shocked how many people consider the country store as the place to gather as as a point of pride really in the community yeah people were very proud of this location yeah yes i'm glad for that but that's really cool because back in the wood when i first moved here three years ago i was talking about the village concept about the village of any show we were places over christmas time just in the peters township and folks would ask ask my wife and i where you're from what's it been nice and and then when he says big because it's spread out so now i just say we're from the village and they have to ask the question the village of where the village of  ship because this would be the central point that we're we're kind of devoid of maybe one central point in peter's township that's what i've heard too that you know who say where are you oh you know where the country store is and so that's the point of reference right yeah great oh we're glad to have you as part of the village now tell me about the deck plans you had that it was built and then just about that time to start of the turn cold well that  that we were new owners and so we we wanted to expand the menu and so it's been great timing really that we're doing so we're going to be adding salads and wraps we have our we do soups currently and carter but when i was in carolina up in the seneca up there in the upstate right on the border of north and south carolina there was a gas station that was written up in national geographic  around and stuff like that some of the history of this one time there were gas pumps here as well yes kerosene gasoline yes right out front and tell me that the little bit of the story that used to be the original store that was building hundred sixty five eventually ended up in the middle of the road well yes they they had the pumps out and you were really when be all the way off the road to get gas and so archie who built this building  that that was the main point of building this building was to get those gas pumps off the busy road and they relocated them they're now since gone but a lot of folks remember getting gas out there yeah ok about the staff that you have here that that run the place we have a great staff johnny joe is a staple in the community and she actually worked here back when this building was built in the eight has gone come and gone over the years but she's been with us and she cooks some of the soups and a lot of the pasta salad and deviled eggs a lot of things that we produce is right here john and joe we have a couple of other people that have joined us lately and they're they're locals who again everybody just loves this store excited they have the jobs here and they just love being here it's a great environment there's an old sign here them coming in here is the original sign right here you reference bob he donated that to the store what he found it in his attic or something it's a little more complex than that but yeah he has it here so we're happy to have it and we have a drawing of the original store as well so well we'll was doing some artsy craftsy things here in this side and in t v so it's from his collection if you will call while i notice just a fact just this morning when i was in anderson this was called anderson station here right and his daughter or is wife's name was charity i did not know that yeah yeah it's a it's in the history kind of thing so when i when i was reading up on them this was i mean because it is such a unique name and so we're very competitive in all the areas were able to ok alright yeah and the coffee you've got some great coffee in fact we made some guatemalan coffee here to beautiful special tree yes right here we run a daily special coffee so we yeah yeah we have a great big addition here yeah yeah well that's really cool let's see now plans for expansion in the future we we know that there are a lot of new neighborhoods popping up in the right area and so we do  cater also to younger families and working mothers and possibly males to go is something that week in the future ok if you had to have anybody say they want to do a card club meet here or any kind of like meeting that would use very quiet so oh that's cool yeah i know up at the creek the museum of the historical society over there this past christmas we had a few of the red hat societies come in over there and and have a lot and that was kind of fun now have you done any catering out of here have not as of yet other than your family i mean we did we want to do everything well so we're taking one step at a time in that way but it definitely was something that we have in mind it's ok yeah we done pepperoni rolls in great quantities for a fundraiser we learned the number of that we can produce in a day is one hundred fifty really fundraisers will sell for two fifty so they make a dollar i give a pretty deep discount you know to the local schools and so forth so that they're able to make some money for their their charity they're taking their joke out of these and so the kids are going out to families and friends and getting have a bible study about the house on thursday mornings and i think they're coming up because i said i was coming over here today they're going to come up here next thursday after their studies have breakfast because they never they didn't know that you could do that  now that's really cool i want to thank the folks about all that stuff that we did a christmas time but you guys were great part of the things that we can do in the future of your nation looking forward to that make it a real destination because right now it's kind of it's kind of on the main road but the very at the same time it could be we could make more i think productivity of our little village here make it the place for folks to come and spend a couple hours yeah  for providing a bucket truck kind of help put more lights on that tree and for their kindness in doing that i also want to thank the many to heritage society that runs the school there the old venetian school it's now the community center hosted in the community center for the first weekend was the red bird appalachian traveling on the red bird mission in beverly kentucky these artesian that make these crafts that are all homemade in kentucky  bring them to that school and that supports the mission and the hospital there the clothes closet in the everything else that goes on there in that mission there peters creek historical society were also present for that first week in their soup and stroll sunday which was just incredible of and in fact it's the biggest event that they've had the biggest turnout the weather helps a lot too it wasn't below zero it was in the fort s for the first weekend of december so that helped a lot but they also sent over a very colorful figure i think father stosh or something whatever the santa figure was in the seventeenth sixty's here in peter's township in other words like in the spring how can we incorporate the little league teams in the soccer folks that will be meeting in the little village of a nation playing on the field actually create an event for them to make it more  han make it more spectacular to make it more more of a destination for the families that participate in the sporting events there may be a summer outdoor craft festival there and then something in the fall also in the future we want to talk to the folks in peter's creek the historical society there that have the original cabin when the right family settled peter's ship before it was peters township seven hundred sixty one the very first household in this area is within a half mile from here and so that's something that we want to talk about to the open the restaurant right cross the street from the country store we want to talk to salvatore and the crew over there going to be doing a valentino celebration which is it's a free for getting dinner rights united methodist church this is our third year to do that last year they got snow down because of the below zero weather but we have some great also right as i was in march the twelfth that's a saturday night elizabeth on trapp will be here in the village of any ship performing at the church elisabeth is the granddaughter of maria von trapp from the sound of music if you know that story you know that's a true life story it's not just a musical maria and the captain had children of their own when they moved to america and this would be the granddaughter elizabeth is the granddaughter of maria she'll be here that writes methodist march the twelfth saturday night seven o'clock for a free will offering concert so you don't want to miss that again call the church seven two four three four eight fifty so an eighteen and tell us that you want to come to that right as i was walking out the door to come over teacher said that with the cold weather snap of this past week that some of her students that she was seeing were coming to school and just t shirts that they had no coats and so immediately we wanted to do something about that and so this local podiatrist has put it out on facebook and and to to talk about how how we can help collect coats for these children in in the inner city and we want to be a part of that so if you after watching  have some extra coats from like that would fit children from kindergarten to fifth grade get them to right to methodist church on seven eighty eight venetia road if there's nobody in the church building themselves put them on the porch and we'll