I'm at home in the country

     I live in a small country village, where the streets are lined with large, mature maple trees, century homes, and farms with horses and dairy cattle.  I am within walking distance to a specialty store that makes its own bread, pies and cakes, serves spectacular breakfasts and lunches, deli meats and cheeses. Not much further is a  five star country bistro which caters and serves Italian cuisine with a California flair. They do a goat cheese stuffed chicken breast with a cranberry- jalapeno jelly that is to die for.   The Honourable A. S. Hardy was born at this location in 1837 and the owner's great grandfather, who settled in the village in 1884, bought the store from the Hardy family.