Welcome to our blog.

This was our original purpose for creating this blog:

We are both baby boomers fast approaching sixty. This blog will chronicle the time leading up to reaching our significant day. Our mutual goal is to complete sixty specific tasks each by our 60th birthdays, and to both celebrate our experiences and our accomplishments.

We are "the fabled tortoise" in this effort. Our blog will begin with a slow start, so we ask for your patience. We are aiming for a strong finish, so we ask for your encouragement. We invite you to join us on our journey, laugh and cry with us, and celebrate with us. We encourage you to leave us your comments and feedback. Most of all, we hope you become inspired to perhaps create and complete your very own "___ by ___ list."

We borrowed this idea from a blog one of our nieces told us about: http://makingitlovely.com . The author is working on her list of "30 Before Thirty."

As we progressed we continued to reflect on the process and the progress:

We would like to make a point of clarification. Because we did not begin our endeavor until April that left us both with less than a year to complete all 60 tasks on each of our lists. Actually, JR has about four months and CEA has about seven months. For that reason we agreed that we would both use CEA's birthday so that we both have the same amount of time to complete our tasks.

Now we are both 60 and moving forward. We have decided to continue the blog, setting goals and celebrating our accomplishments, sharing our experiences and voicing our thoughts, and enjoying life by making the most of every day with which we are blessed.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

JR's list #27: (done) Bind the edges of the woven afghan hanging in bedroom for cleaning.

Too many years ago for me to remember, I purchased a complete a bedding set and accessories from a J C Penney's catalog.  The picture in the catalog showed the set with a woven afghan hanging on the wall behind the bed.  I liked the bedroom set, but truth be known, I bought the set because of the afghan which I also purchased.  For years, I would take it down off the wall, take it outside, and shake the heck out of it to eliminate any dust.  I was afraid to wash it for fear it would unravel.  I was afraid to have it dry cleaned for fear something would happen to it.  I finally found a fabric glue that was invisible,  flexible, and washable.  I applied the glue on the back of the afghan close the the fringed edges.  The glue dried, I waited the recommended week for the glue to cure, and washed the afghan with the gentle cycle.


The afghan is now clean, fresh, and back on the wall over the my bed, and all is right with the world.
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