Wow, has it really been more than two weeks since I last posted here? Sorry to leave you hanging. Apart from book work, we’ve been enjoying the fall, cleaning up the yard and flower beds, and preparing for Halloween. Given our schedule this year (including Madi’s incredibly busy volleyball schedule, where’s she’s starting on the varsity squad as a freshman — yeah, we’re pretty proud of her, too), we won’t make it to Sleepy Hollow for the first time in several years, so we’re decking out our place appropriately, including these two fellows near our back door:
Rest in pieces.
On a different note . . . if you’re a Jim Henson fan and you’re not reading the daily excerpts from Jim Henson’s Red Book . . . well, for shame, Doc, for shame. What is the Red Book, you ask? At the end of each year, Jim Henson would go through his personal calendar and write down in his red notebook everything that had happened during the previous year — or, at least, what he thought was interesting. It’s a fascinating (and, oftentimes, funny) document — not quite a diary, but more than just a simple listing of events. Think of it this way: if Jim were alive today, these are the kinds of things he might put up on a Twitter feed.
Anyway, over at the Jim Henson Company, crack archivist Karen Falk is putting up daily entries — corresponding to actual dates, meaning if today is October 29, then she’ll put up an entry from October 29 — and, where appropriate or helpful, providing a bit of background.
Go get it — and if you’re on Facebook or Twitter, subscribe to it for daily updates. It’s fun. Trust me.
Brian Jay Jones 
What a great idea – putting up entries related to the actual anniversary of the event! …
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