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On the Fifth Day of Christmas
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman, with an excerpt by Cowboy Five golden rings! It’s about time! Well, that’s the best gift ever, regardless of whether it is in Germany, England, or...
On the Fourth Day of Christmas
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Four calling birds? I’m not sure about that. We have several bird feeders and buy a lot of sunflower seeds and suet. It is common to see a dozen or more munching...
On the Third Day of Christmas
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman On the third day of Christmas, my true love brought to me -Three French hens? Does he mean plain old chickens, as in clucking and crowing, laying eggs, and...
On the Second Day of Christmas
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Day One, he gave me a partridge in a pear tree. How lucky for me! What in the world could he give me that would top that, I thought to myself. I looked...
On the First Day of Christmas
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman I was looking up stuff the other day, you know, checking on some trivia that no one really knows or cares about, and I ran across the old English Christmas carol,...
A Blog by Perky Gail Cushman
Wrinkly Bits Originally posted 11/16/25 A few days ago, the Cowboy called me “perky.” After five weeks in a cast on my foot and two more weeks wearing a black boot with more Velcro than I had known...
Free at Last
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 11/2/25 Free at last! Free at last! Cast is off and I’m free at last. My doc is a genius. He took a sharp knife, three staples, and slapped on a...
Fall Is Falling
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Fall Is Falling I love Fall, it might be my favorite season, except maybe Spring. Summer and Winter get votes, too, but they have some negatives, like...
Enough Already
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 10/22/25 I’ve had it with the Box Elder bugs. The collaborative term for these pests is Nuisance which is appropriate, but they think they are...
A Bit of Nostalgia…School lunches
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 10/19/25 During my extended time with the various school systems, I had the opportunity to eat a lot of school lunches. I was a student for 12...
Danger Lurks Ahead
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 10/15/25 Yesterday, we needed to go to a Big Box Store, and as you might know, I am still in this confounded foot cast, waiting to stretch out...
Loveliness and Nuisances
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 10/3/25 Do you remember our old childhood chant? ”Lady Bug, Lady Bug, Fly away home. Your house is on fire, and your children are gone. All...
Who is Miss Gail?
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by AI, censored by Gail Cushman Originally posted 10/1/25 Last night I was browsing on my iPhone, enjoying the comments people had made about my Hunter’s Orange cast and other...
Sunday Road Trips
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 9/16/25 When I was a child, one of the best things we did as a family was to go on our Sunday afternoon Road Trips. First, we went to church,...
Our Great Adventure
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 9/7/25 We are home...after two days of travel...and am just catching up. We had a great trip to Europe and were a hop, skip, and jump from Asia,...
Notre Dame: A Job Well Done
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman and Cowboy Bob Originally posted 9/2/25 One of the main reasons we wanted to come to Paris this year was to see Notre Dame, after its rebuild from the fire six...
What a City!
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman and Cowboy Bob Originally posted 9/1/25 We arrived in Paris late when our plane was delayed by a couple hours. It didn’t make much of a difference to us, as we...
Co-Pilot
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman and My Newfound Friend Originally posted 8/29/25 This AI thing is going to drive me bonkers. Here I am sitting in my cabin on a boat, minding my own business,...
Corfu
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 8/29/25 I didn’t know anything about Corfu, maybe I read something in a book or watched a show on TV, but it didn’t ring a bell with me. It’s a...
Buck up, Buttercup
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Buck Up, Buttercup Yesterday we went on a little road trip, and in Montana, a “little road trip” can be quite long...how about 348 miles? Here’s what we did:...
Murder on the Rez
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Three years! Fifteen edits! Lot of tears, frustration, and now joy. It’s out! On Amazon, Kindle, and Kindle Unlimited. Murder on the Rez is fiction, the story...
A Pretty Good Date
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Yesterday was a crackerjack day, blue, sunny skies and blooming flowers. The temp was in the lower 70s and perfect for taking a ride in Cowboy’s Mustang...