Your Smile for Today:

Before we reach for that deep-fried Mars Bar, we might consider these personality traits:

1. I don't exercise because everyone else at the gym looks like a supermodel or Schwarzenegger compared to me.
2. I eat salads when I'm out with friends, then raid the pantry when I'm home.
3. I enjoy being physically active as much as I do making paper-clip chains.
4. My plate's so high, it breaks at least three city codes.
5. Ahhh! I find food as comforting as a down pillow.
6. I like exercise, but if I have to miss it, I'm like a crashed NASCAR !
it's hard for me to get back on track.
7. My life is moving fast, my to-do list is the length of a novel, and I can't find the brakes.
8. I need a dietary restraining order. If there's any food within fifty feet of me, I'll eat it.


These are only a few of the excuses listed by Mehmet C. Oz, MD. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
YOU ON A DIET, Free Press, Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2006.

Happy Mother's Day ~ Bless Our Moms

Photo by Lorna: The Haldimand County Museum, Munsee St., (Hwy. 54) Cayuga-on-the-Grand ~ "Welcome."

The log cabin doorway.

Your Smile for Today:

"My best advice is this: Focus on how you want to FEEL not how you currently feel. Anytime a negative thought or feeling comes in, acknowledge it and replace it with a good thought and feeling."

~ Krista Schaus, performance specialist, certified personal trainer

Visit Krista's website at http://www.definingedge.ca/

Krista Schaus, professional powerlifter, owner of Defining Edge Fitness Inc. will be in the bookshop on Friday, May 7, around 11:00 a.m. Come by, chat and enjoy a cup of tea with Krista. (We might serve almonds instead of butterscotch crunchy cookies.)

Visit Krista's website at http://www.definingedge.ca/ The message here is, "Aspire. Act. Achieve."

Click on Krista's WebMag for some really good information on health and fitness.

Canadian Geographic TRAVEL

Author, Journalist, James Raffan, has an article, THE OLD MAN AND THE RIVER, in the summer issue of Canadian Geographic Travel. While navigating the beautiful Grand River, memories of days on the water as a boy with his father return. "A sense of peace fills my soul," writes Raffan.

With tent, sleeping bag, knapsack filled with beef jerky, Triscuits and a flask of single malt, Raffan makes the week-long journey from Guelph Lake, the Speed River north of Guelph to Port Maitland on Lake Erie.

He visits The Neat Little Bookshop in Cayuga. Thank you, James.

James Raffan is the author of the best-selling books, Wild Waters: Canoeing North America's Wilderness Rivers, Emperor of the North and Fire in the Bones. He is executive director of the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ont.
http://www.canoemuseum.ca/
(Next time you are paddling the Grand, James, pull up onto the grassy bank; we will meet you with a Johnnie Walker Blue.)
Photo: Wind in The Willows by Lorna. Click on photo for larger image.

Your Smile for Today:

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."

~ Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman, Social Reformer (1813 - 1887) Brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The Neat Little Bookshop Cayuga

We are pleased to host A Special Photographic Exhibit SHADES OF BEAUTY.
An eclectic display of photos and art pencil drawings inspires the most reluctant among us to set up a home gym and examine closely our lifestyle!

We are privileged to feature Krista Schaus, professional power lifter, body builder and performance specialist. "Krista excels at inspiring others to become their best," Artist and photographer, Scott Walker

Despite her busy schedule, Krista is planning to visit the Neat Little Bookshop on Friday, May 7th. around 11:00 a.m. Come by; enjoy a cup of tea or coffee with Krista. NOTE: Friday, May 7, 11:00 a.m.

Visit Krista's website at http://www.definingedge.ca