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.

Friday, June 4, 2010

JR's List: Item #33 - (done) Register and participate in the 2010 Komen Race for the Cure with Cindy (first weekend in May).

May 1st, our dear friend Cindy and I participated in our fifth Komen Race for the cure. We meet at the Denny's close to the Alamodome in downtown San Antonio for breakfast before the race.  Having followed this same routine for the previous three years, we were surprised this year that Denny's was charging $25.00 dollars to park in their lot, even if you were eating there.  Thankfully, we were able to park in a lot a couple of blocks from Denny's for $5.00 each.  We ate and then joined the 30,000 (more or less) participants for the race.


The weather was perfect for walking; cloudy but not to hot or too cool.


This view from the railroad overpass south of the Alamodome looking up Durango as it goes under I37 is always an impressive sight.  It's inspiring to see this sea of white and pink.


This is our friend, Cindy.  Not a great picture, but it"s the only one taken of either one of us this year.


We are about two-thirds of the way through the race at this point.


I must confess.  After getting up at 4:00 a.m., I went home and took a very wonderful, very long nap.
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3 comments:

The 60 by 60 Ladies said...

Wait a minute, wait a minute! I remember that the very first time we walked, we had breakfast at my apartment!

June 5, 2010 at 9:51 PM
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June 7, 2010 at 8:50 AM
The 60 by 60 Ladies said...

You are exactly right. And like every meal you have shared with Cindy and me, it was totally AWESOME! That was a special day. Less than a week after completing all my cancer treatments, you and Cindy were with me helping me make every step of the Komen. Afterward. I also remember, we stopped at Aldaco's to rest and I think we ate something. Then we went to the Guenther House at Pioneer Flour Mill where we ate, again.

June 8, 2010 at 10:15 AM

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