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 list

We have given ourselves until April 1st to complete our lists.  Knowing that life has a way of happening, neither of our lists will "be in stone".  Instead, each list will be monitored and adjusted along the way.  With that said, here is my list:

  1. (making progress) Walk between two and three miles daily.
  2. (making progress) Work with Terry to have the two younger horses rode for six weeks.
  3. Clean out and reorganize the kitchen
  4. Completely clean out the refrigerator and restock it from scratch.
  5. Organize sewing fabric and supplies
  6. Raise the bed by 7" to utilize area for storage.
  7. Raise the daybeds and corner table in the office by at least 7".
  8. (done) Expand the BCLT collection by 50 posters.
  9. Learn how to screen print on t-shirts.
  10. Remove carpet from living room and replace with vinyl flooring.
  11. (done) Attend the 6th Annual Lavender Fest in Blanco, Texas on June 11, 2010.
  12. Apply for a passport
  13. (done) Create a hanging basket herb garden.
  14. (in progress) Grow strawberries, cherry tomatoes, and wild field greens.
  15. (in progress) Learn to cook with fresh herbs and various kinds of mushrooms.
  16. Find and prepare recipes for healthy casseroles for Terry and his mother.
  17. Learn to make a whole grain or multi-grain bread.
  18. Sew at least one new pants suit.
  19. (done) Renew Majestic tickets.
  20. (done)  Create a workshop on early childhood games and present it on August 18th.
  21. (done) Neuter/spay the 14 abandoned kittens and find homes for all of them.
  22. Restart and complete the Posit Brain Fitness Sound Program.
  23. (done) Purchase a weed/grass trimmer that is also an edger.
  24. (making progress) Clean out my e-mail inbox monthly.
  25. (done) Eliminate all unnecessary stored emails and all emails more than one-year old.
  26. (in progress) Lose 15 pounds.
  27. (done) Bind the edges of the woven afghan hanging in bedroom for cleaning.
  28. (making progress) Read at least one book a month until my 60th birthday.
  29. (making progress) Listen to at least three audio books a month until my 60th birthday.
  30. Go and see/rent at least four new movies a month until my 60th birthday.
  31. Purchase a new clothes dryer to match my new washer.
  32. Begin creating a family cookbook for the niece and nephews for Christmas next year.
  33. (done) (Cindy and I are registered.) Register and participate in the 2010 Komen Race for the Cure with Cindy (first weekend in May).
  34. (done) Work with Candace to create our blog 60 to 60.
  35. (progress) Make notes regularly about 60 to 60 blog. 
  36. (progress) Blog at least twice a week on 60 by 60 Blog .
  37. At least start the t-shirt quilt for Morgan.
  38. Create Filemaker Pro databases for BCLT inventory and purchase records with a relationship between the two databases.
  39. (done) Give myself a French manicure.
  40. Remove the bar to create a sewing area
  41. Remove the carpeting behind the bar and replace with vinyl flooring.
  42. (making progress) Remove the carpeting in the hall and replace with vinyl flooring.
  43. Clean out the clothes and give unwanted clothing to Goodwill.
  44. (in progress) List at least 40 - 50 posters on ebay monthly from July through October.
  45. (progress) Give toys that I kept for my niece and nephews to the kids next door.
  46. (done) Give unwanted professional books to a friend's school.
  47. Give teaching games and puzzles to a friend's school.
  48. Sew at least one new shorts sets for this summer.
  49. (done)  Send promotional emails to school districts for posters.
  50. (done) Write at least four new postings for BCLT Blog.
  51. Have Rosemond picture reframed.
  52. Purchase glass cover for bamboo corner table in office.
  53. Recycle old electronics.
  54. Have laptop repaired.
  55. Upgrade wireless card to 3G/4G card.
  56. Upgrade to a Smartphone.
  57. Have family videos converted to DVD
  58. Register trademark for t-shirt designs.
  59. Create t-shirts to sell.
  60. Hang a ceiling fan in my bedroom.
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