Lesson learned: When you create an animated monster mud prop, always leave yourself an access panel to re-set the gears and reattach the wires. Storage plays hell with wooden gears.
A camera crew showed up at my house this morning and asked if they could take some video of our house for the 5 o'clock news. They wanted to interview my wife, but she had just woken up from a nap and wasn't feeling up to it.
