Wrinkly Bits Blog
My Daily Goals
I’m a one-armed blogger this week…two weeks out of a shoulder replacement. It was a reverse job, but I’m unsure what that means. The doc explained it twice, and I tried to listen twice, but it went...
Easy Keeper or Svelte
A Blog by Cowboy Bob As a Cowboy, one of my skills is looking at cows and horses and making sure they are healthy and if they are getting enough to eat or if they are too thin. My widow friend in...
It Ain’t Easy
My mother told me there would times like this, but I didn’t believe her. I should have. I’m a perfect 76-year-old specimen, just ask my doctor, but if that’s true, why does every bone in my body...
The Stillwater River Flood of 2022 (Part 2)
This is a continuation of Part 1. Although this event really happened to real people, I have fictionalized parts of it and changed the names…please check my website if you missed Part 1....
The Stillwater River Flood of 2022 (Part 1)
As you know, I have been back and forth from Idaho to Montana and in June this year, I was in Montana during the 500 floods. I met several people who bravely faced this flooding catastrophe and told...
Adventure Foiled
Adventures aren’t adventures without risk and possibility of failure, and our planned trip down the Missouri River was foiled. We packed well with food and water for a two-week trip, put Cody the...
I’m Dancing!
This week I’m off on an adventure, doing something I have never done before. Cowboy Bob and I taking a river trip, down the Missouri River, from Ft. Benton to Ft. Peck, the Missouri Breaks, they are...
Cowboy Bob Visits Rome
Wrinkly Bits A Blog by Gail Cushman and Cowboy Bob Well, we’ve had quite an adventure, my Idaho Lady and me. We crossed the Atlantic in the biggest boat I have ever been on. Twelve hundred of our...
They Cost How Much?
I had my eyes opened to the world beyond Boise when we were in Rome and spent a leisurely hour strolling down a street filled with shops that advertise in fashion magazines, but not AARP Magazine,...
Neighborhood Doings
I live in the best neighborhood. It isn’t fancy or anything, just good people and everyone takes care of everyone else. People smile and wave and keep track of each other and when I am on a trip,...
Great Adventures
As you know, Cowboy Bob and I traveled to Rome to see what we could see. I had been to Rome before, sometime after the Colosseum was built, but before Pope Frances took over, but Cowboy Bob had not,...
Cruising in Carhartts
A blog by Cowboy Bob That Idaho gal kinda got under my skin when she suggested we take a cruise, to the south of Spain, the sun coast they call it. I prefer to run my own ship if you know what I...
Whole Lot of Shaking Going On!
People often ask me why I do what I do…writing, traveling, cruising…and truthfully, I ask myself, “Yeah, why?” The truth is they keep me out of trouble, keep me from getting bored, and I learn lots...
Stay the Course…The Adventure Continues
A Blog by Gail Cushman Last night I lost my hearing aids. The night before it was my glasses and prior to that it was my phone. I’m on a ship going somewhere, aimed toward Europe, but I have...
The OEB
I must be the most confused person in the world. It has to do with trash, and I don’t get why I have three trash containers and dedicate at least two hours a week to trash sorting and collection....
Cowboy Bob and His New Friend
A Blog by Gail Cushman and Cowboy Bob I had on my mind this Idaho Gal who I met while back at a Super Bowl party and although she was with some big ole boy, we had a great conversation in the...
The Adventure Begins
I’m still working on my best-selling book about online dating for widows and widowers and I thought how I can write a book on online dating if I’ve never been on an online date? Sometimes I’m...
Blue Eyes Continued
My life’s been rather topsy turvy for the past several weeks. I’m still wrestling with the alligator-sized hole in my bathroom, my best-selling book about online dating for seniors is coming along...
Hello Blue Eyes
Hello, Blue Eyes! Well, I’m not really sure about that, but maybe. My drugstore cowboy has gone away and now I’m on some dating sites, checking out the eye candy, or men who think they are eye...
Montana Plumbing
A Blog by Gail Cushman, a Cowboy Bob Blog My favorite writer of senior adventures is a gal over in Idaho, who I enjoy reading every week while I finish up my night calving chores here in the...
Passwords Will Be the Death of Me
I’m working on a book about online dating and had to join a couple sites. I refuse to pay for sites, so only get whatever they offer for free, which isn’t much, a few blurred photos of men and...
Romancing the Snow
I recently watched the Michael Douglas movie Romancing the Stone and laughed all the way through it. A little adventure, a little romance, a little bit of a nail-biter, with a great big alligator...