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.

JR's Items to Completed

I have updated my list by actually creating two separate lists.  One of tasks I have created and this list of tasks to complete.  There is about a month left to go before reaching CEA's 60th birthday.  I have more items on this list than is necessary to complete our goal, so I have some leeway in the tasks.  Those in black are from the current list of my 60 by 60 items.  Those in blue are new, but I feel doable by our completion deadline.
 
  1. Item #3:  Clean out and  reorganize the kitchen
  2. Item #9:  Establish habit of showering before bed night.
  3. Item #10:  Establish habit of washing, drying, putting away all dirty dishes before going to bed.
  4. Item #12:  Apply for a passport
  5. Item #16:  Find and prepare recipes for healthy casseroles for Terry and his mother.
  6. Item #17:  Learn to make a whole grain or multi-grain bread.
  7. Item #18:  Sew at least one new pants suit.
  8. Item #22:  Restart and complete the Posit Brain Fitness Sound Program.
  9. Item #24:  Establish habit of taking vitamins twice a day.
  10. Item #31:  (making progress) Blog about every item I complete.
  11. Item #32:  Begin creating a family cookbook for the niece and nephews for Christmas next year.
  12. Item #36:  Create inspirational category and create at least twenty new posters created for the new category.
  13. Item #37:  At least start the t-shirt quilt for Morgan.
  14. Item #43:  Clean out the clothes and give unwanted clothing to Goodwill.
  15. Item #47:  Give teaching games and puzzles to a friend's school.
  16. Item #48:  Sew at least one new shorts sets for this summer.
  17. Item #51:  Re-hem six pairs of slacks that are now too long.
  18. Item #52:  Reorganize bathroom.
  19. Item #53:  Eliminate all teaching materials with the exception of a single copy for files.
  20. Item #54:  Replace missing buttons on clothing.
  21. Item #55:  Upgrade wireless card to 3G/4G card.
  22. Item #57:  Wash all coats and jackets to prepare for winter.
  23. Item #58:  Register trademark for t-shirt designs.
  24. Item #59:  Wash winter bedding to prepare for the colder weather.
  25. Item #60:  Return all of the books and movies that I have borrowed from Candace and Cindy.
  26. Item #62:  Organize receipts.
  27. Item #63:  Establish habit of making bed daily.
  28. Item #64:  Create slide show for electronic frame for friend of son who has recently passed away.
  29. Item #65:  Learn how to level mobile home and begin replacing current piers or have the trailer leveled professionally.
  30. Item #66:  Clean porch area.
  31. Item #69:  Organize sewing supplies, equipment, patterns, and fabric.
  32. Item #70:  Purchase a new clothes dryer to match my new washer.
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