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, July 1, 2010

JR's List Item #15: (making progress) Learn to cook with fresh herbs and various kinds of mushrooms.

In her post of May 8th, Candace talked about making a pesto with fresh herbs from her garden.  Since cooking with fresh herbs is also an item on my list, I decided to give the pesto a try.  I made it with fresh basil from my hanging garden.  It is as delicious as CEA described and very, very versatile.  Thank you, Candace!

I have also made chicken breasts marinated in my fresh rosemary.  I need to start working with the mushrooms.
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

CEA's update #15

Item #39. Get back on a good vitamin regimen.
Older sister touted vitamins recommended to her by a natural health practitioner during her recovery from recent surgery, so I purchased the same brand from Whole Foods:  Garden of Life's "Vitamin Code for 50 & Wiser Women." 
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