Saturday, August 11, 2012

Saturday, June 30, 2012

It was a cloudy day at the famous Florabama Lounge which straddles the state line between Florida and Alabama on the legendary Gulf Coast. We met some new friends with sunny attitudes, though. — with Bonnie at Orange Beach, AL.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Thanksgiving2011SevenCedarsFarm.mov

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Crispin Family Christmas 2010 Caribbean Cruise

Sunday, August 28, 2011

OffToBiminiwithCaptainCrispinAndHisCrew3.mov

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Sunday, May 15, 2011

DavidCrispinLeafBlowing2010.mov

Dr. Jon's Lagniappe

Mark Twain writes about the word in a chapter on New Orleans in Life on the Mississippi (1883). He called it "a word worth travelling to New Orleans to get": We picked up one excellent word a word worth travelling to New Orleans to get; a nice limber, expressive, handy word "lagniappe." They pronounce it lanny-yap. It is the equivalent of the thirteenth roll in a "baker's dozen." It is something thrown in, gratis, for good measure. So it is, this blog is intended as a little something extra.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

CSU Bowling!

Big sister, Karen was on a bowling league at the Ridgeway Lanes, a 7 lane bowling alley dad built in the early 1960's in Ridgefarm, IL. This video performance is a far cry from hers displayed in bowling bygone days. Still it was fun!