Yesterday, a customer came into the store and was admiring the salvaged wood that we’ve used to build-out our store.  As we were talking, he mentioned that he was from Tennessee.  I told him that I was from Tennessee.  He said that he had bought a house in Springhill, which is not so far from where 2 of my brothers live (one lives in College Grove and the other in Franklin).  It turns out that this man is Peter Jenkins, author of Walk Across America, which was required reading when I was in high school.  Maybe it’s still required reading.  My point in mentioning this is that having a store has all sorts of tangential perks, like meeting really interesting people.   And of course he bought some soaps.