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.

Monday, August 2, 2010

JR’s List Item #28 – (June/July report) Listen to at least three audio books a month until my 60th birthday.

The selections for June and July were both new audio books that I had recently purchased and audio books that I had purchased several years ago, but had never had the opportunity to hear.  All in all the selections were entertaining, enjoyable, and even enlightening in some cases.  I would not suggest reading/listening to all these selections without adding some qualifiers to my recommendations, but  I have enjoyed each one including some new authors I have never read/listened to before now.

June listening selections:
  • The Defector, Daniel Silva
  • The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
  • Hour Game, David Baldacci
  • The Scarecrow, Michael Connelly
  • Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier
  • Sweetwater Creek, Anne Rivers Siddons


July reading selection:
  • The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva
  • Cold Hit, Stephen J. Cannell 
  • Up Country, Nelson DeMille
  • The Twelfth Card, Jeffrey Deaver
  • Deliver Us From Evil, David Baldacci
  • Clara Callen, Richard B. Wright
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    1 comment:

    Anonymous said...

    Janet,
    If you have these audios to lend out - you know that I am always interested in them.

    Cindy

    August 4, 2010 at 4:58 PM

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