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, April 2, 2010

CEA's progress report #2:

Item #24. Buy cowboy work boots
Did it!  I'm not certain that "cowboy work boots" is a valid term.  My hankering for boots--other than my snake boots--has been growing since I moved back to the country.  True cowboy boots seemed to be too much boot for my purpose, which is to have a pair of boots to throw on to wear to town.  When I asked my visiting brother where I should buy boots, he said there's only one place to go, and took me to Ben's in Cotulla.  A resolute sales woman worked and worked to find me a pair of work boots.  I ended up with a pair of girls' boots.  Janet tells me I shouldn't be wearing capri jeans with boots, but I'm sure having fun doing so!

Item #31. Cook from a "found" recipe once a week
Progress:  I prepared two chicken recipes today from the April 2007 issue of Everyday Food:  Chicken Club Salad and Chicken Tetrazzini.  Both dishes taste so good that I'm not feeling guilty about saving the magazine for three years! 
 
Item #45. Post on the blog at least twice a week
 Progress:  This is my second post in five days.

Item #48. Set up the paperwork notebook I read about on http://smallnotebook.org/
Did it!  I've set up the notebook, using supplies I had on hand.  Having everything in one easily transportable zip-up notebook has been helpful.
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Monday, March 29, 2010

CEA's progress report #1:
 
Item #1:  Challenge Janet to join me in creating 60 by 60 lists.
We did it!  JR set everything up for us, and I actually entered my list and this first blog entry (I hope) all by myself!  I tend to overuse exclamation points and doubt my abilities with technology.

Item #5:  Clean out my e-mail inbox and keep the number of e-mails below 20.

Number of e-mails in my in-box = 357.  I eliminated over 100 today.

Item #14:  Bake a cake from scratch.

Did it!  I baked the chocolate cake in the latest issue of Martha Stewart Living for my nephew's 17th birthday celebration, and it was scrumptious!

Item #18:  Cancel memberships in diet site and book club.
Did it!  

Item #19:  Complete laying the stones in the back yard terrace (phase 2).
Did it!  I spent all of one weekend and another morning to excavate and place the stones--120 in all. 
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