Wrinkly Bits Blog
What to Write About Today
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 1/17/26 I’ve been writing Wrinkly Bits blogs for almost five years. I started writing it in 2021, I think, or maybe 2022. I forget. It was...
Something to Write Home About
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman and Cowboy Bob Originally posted 1/5/26 We are on the road again, this time to California for a solemn event, a funeral, not an adventure. One day last week I...
Where’s My Cute Shirt?
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Originally posted 12/30/25 I’ve kinda gotten into the rhythm of Montana State football. Cowboy and I have attended several football games (thank you, Riley) and...
Twelve Days of Christmas
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Cowboy Bob and Cowgirl Gail “Pa rum pum pum pum.” Whew, the drums are beating. On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, twelve drummers drumming. “Pa...
Eleven Pipers Piping?
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman I’ve had my eye on Cowboy, watching for all those presents. We now have a pear forest which might be a good idea or not, depending on how hardy pear trees are. We...
Day 10 Ten Lords a-Leaping
Wrinkly Bits A Blog/Poem by Gail Cushman Ten Lords a-Leaping. Fancy that. Montana has no lords. Period. They have cowboys, who are Lords of the Range. So, I thought I should write a poem about...
Day 9: Nine Ladies Dancing
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman I am not a dancer, but then, I have a lot of issues. I have clumsy feet, a tin ear, a non-working sniffer, not to mention being directionally challenged, but...
Day 8: 8 Maids A-milking
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman and Cowboy Bob For the past seven days, I’ve been shuffling birds, all kinds of birds, trying to figure out what to do with them. Getting rid of four dozen, more...
Seventh day of Christmas, Seven Swans a-swimming
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman Swans are big, water-based birds, nearly five feet long, and at first glance, graceful, loving (they mate for life, unless they get a divorce, apparently because...
The Sixth Day of Christmas, Six Geese a-laying
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman When I think of geese, I think of “V” formations above me, flying south for the winter or north for the summer. But I also think of nasty, green goose poop on the...
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...