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.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

CEA's update #23

Item #47. Order book boxes from Amazon (through the Golden Girls website) every other month with a mixture of topics (fiction, organizing, decorating, poetry, memoir): April-June-August-October.
I couldn't find a decorating book for my August book box, but I preordered three which will be published in the autumn.  I'm currently perusing a book on storybook cottages, avoiding Health magazine's new carb diet book, and devouring Dick Francis's last horse racing mystery.  I found Dick Francis in a Reader's Digest condensed book when I was a teenager, and I've read every one of his books.  His books are usually published in October, just in time for my birthday.  I'll miss my tradition!
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CEA's update #22

Item #22. Repaint black breakfast tray.

Did it!  I bought this breakfast tray about 30 years ago at an estate sale.  Originally white, it looks much better black and has needed to be refreshed for awhile.  As long as I was using black paint, I also painted the fold-up tray table, a small black iron table, and an old iron sewing machine base.

I wish I had done like you, Janet, and NOT used update numbers, but it is kinda cool that update #22 is about item #22!
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