Smile For Today ~

"One should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
~ Somerset Maugham, giving advice on dinner parties.


"If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up."
~ Theodor 'Dr Seuss' Geisel


"My doctor told me to stop having dinner parties for four, unless there are three other people."

~ Orson Welles

I wandered lonely as a cloud ~

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them dance; but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company;
I gazed ~ and gazed ~ but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Wm. Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850)  English Poet.

 Gone are the trains and the tracks ~ Only the bridge remains



Train Bridge over The Grand

  Gone are the rails and the ties. . .

SATURDAY NIGHT IS THE THIRD GREAT SUGAR DRAW

In 1990, FRONT PAGE REFLECTIONS was published by The Dunnville Chronicle ~ Compiled by Lorne E. Sorge

Front Page July 15, 1938 ~

A Bigger Attendance Than Ever Last Saturday.  People were present from outlying villages as far as eighteen miles away at last Saturday's Sugar Draw -- proving beyond all doubt its growing popularity.
Will you be there this Saturday night?  Just a few minutes of your time at 11 p.m. daylight saving time may mean a bag of sugar for you - surely it's worth it.  You get your coupon with every 25 cent purchase.  Sign your name to these, deposit them in a convenient box, and then come to the sugar draw and see how lucky you are.  Shop early and don't wait a week to know how lucky you are.
THIRTY-TWO PEOPLE GET SUGAR EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT -- Yes, sir!  32 lucky people carry home sugar, which is drawn for as follows:  10 bags of 10 lbs. each; two bags of 20 lbs.; 10 bags of 10 lbs.,three bags of 20 lbs., five bags of 20 lbs., one bag of 50 lbs. and for the 32nd draw, the big prize of 100 lbs. of granulated sugar.

REMEMBER the stores listed here are sugar stores -- Ask for your coupon with every 25 cent purchase and bear in mind always, the more coupons you have in the draw the better your chance of winning.

[Some 35 retail stores participated in the Great Sugar Draw.]



Heritage Grand River ~ Seneca Park

 Please Join us on Thursday, April 5, over the lunch hour, for a Community Information Meeting.  Organizers of "Day of 1000 Canoes" will be on hand to talk about the up-coming event on Saturday, June 23, 2012.

Location:  The Neat Little Bookshop, corner of Hwy #3 and Cayuga Street.  Soup, sandwiches, tea and coffee. 

Photo:  lbwalker, March 28, 2012.

Melissa's Diary is a blog that I follow.  When I access The Neat Little Bookshop blog, up pops a cute kitten-photo introducing Melissa's daily diary.  Yesterday a huge bowl of cat food prompted a stunned kitten to say, "This is supposed to do me 'til noon?"

I have never communicated with the author but when I do, I'll tell her how much her funny comments lighten my mood.  Melissa is an author for Harlequin Romance and as such she provides an insight into the world of meeting deadlines and the on-going dialogue between publisher, editor and writer.  She has more than one blog so click on several tabs!
http://www.melissamcclone.blogspot.com/

Cock-and-Bull Story.  Where did a fanciful tale get the name "cock-and-bull story"?  The expression is a derisive allusion to the fables of Aesop and others in which cocks moralize and bulls debate.

(Learn something everyday in the bookshop!)

Our Trail in Need of Clean-up

This time of year it is difficult to get a picture without garbage.  (Missed the plastic in this one.)

~ Why Do We Say It?  The Stories Behind the Words, Expressions and Cliches We Use, Castle Books, 1985.