My exercise pattern has sure changed throughout my life. The earliest exercise I can remember was having snowball fights in Winnipeg winters. My brothers and I would make a fort from the big chunks of hard packed snow that the plow threw up as it made its way down the front street. The neighbor kids were busy doing the same. After we had accumulated a pile of snow balls behind our forts, the fights began. Snowballs were flying back and forth. The side with the most snowballs lasted the longest and so won the fight. It was exercise of a sort, although at the time, I’m sure we never thought of it that way.

As the years went by, exercise existed, for the most part, in my mind. 10 of these, 15 of those, and I would have a great waistline. None of this extra flab for me, at least not in my mind. Chasing after kids and scrubbing floors may have helped, who knows?

The years have been tough in the exercise department, but I have now found the secret to flexibility - Peggy Cappy’s 5 minute Yoga - to be done BEFORE you get out of bed in the morning. Ankle circles and leg lifts done in bed guarantee that you will glide effortlessly out of bed and sail through the day pain free, almost. Just two or three Tylenol on the sly and no one will ever know.

Wishing all of you a HAPPY NEW YEAR, and may all your expectations with regard to exercise be met.

See below a drawing of my dream exercise for 2025, “Yoga in the Grass”.