Re-discovering my little town

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Hi mylotters, It has been a low key weekend and that is alright! I spent yesterday sort of re-discovering my little town. This town is in the middle of farming communities and is approx. 3,000 population. We are located 15 miles out of a much larger town, so if something isn't available here - it's just a hop, skip and jump into "town". Even though there aren't many people here this little town has a lot to offer. We have hardware stores, grocery, 2 general stores, a bar, library, gym, couple fast food places, Chinese restaurant, pizza place, café and even a movie theater. Yesterday I got the chance to go into a couple buildings I haven't been in before. This weekend this small town's churches have fundraiser garage sales. I went to the Catholic's school's annual fundraiser garage sale. The past couple of years I have gotten some great stuff cheap. This year I got skunked though. I went to the Lutheran Church's sale. I walk by the building each time I go to my garden - but I hadn't been in it before. Always wondered what it was like inside - since it's a very angular architecture on the outside. Inside it's beautiful with large windows and an open foyer. Then, I finally went to the youth center building, because another Church was having their sale at that location. I walk past this a lot, too. Once I got in there - I realized this space back, 20 years ago - had been a restaurant my parents and I had stopped at before any of us lived in the area. It was a fantastic place and I have to say - even though I have nothing against youth programs - I was sorry that the space wasn't still a restaurant or something of community interest rather than just a place for kids. For noon meal, I treated myself to the little café. When I said little, I meant, really, really little.... next to the drugstore is what might be the world's smallest dine in restaurant. It has 4 tables. It could maybe seat 20 in the dining area. That said it has fantastic and cheap pizza, chicken, burgers, - but I normally get the tacos which are fantastic and, well cheap. I think they do a lot of carry out business. It's a pleasant enough place. But the kitchen takes up 2/3rd the amount of space and there aren't even any restrooms in the building. I wondered why they didn't rip the kitchen out - and the youth group could move over there. Leaving the nice huge restaurant, for , well, a restaurant. On all accounts it was a nice if not slow day rediscovering some of this small town's buildings. Link: "My Little Town" - Merydyth Brooks