Maria, Mansion Aide Tania Woodward, and I have teamed up to undertake the Mansion Arch Halloween Project.

Tania started it by asking if I could get materials and pumpkins for painting glow-in-the-dark paint on some pumpkins. She is planning a gala Halloween Party complete with witches and broomsticks.

Then she decided that we needed to place all kinds of pumpkins, real and plastic, all around the arch that greets visitors to the Mansion. The celebration is growing, which makes me happy.

Tania asked if Maria could help with the artwork and if I could help to find the right pumpkins and paints, in other words, do the buying.

Sunday, we are bringing 20 pumpkins of all sizes (many from my neighbor’s farm truck above) plus ten plastic pumpkins and some painted party pumpkins. Maria and Tania will meet to discuss how and when the pumpkins will be painted and what other artistic and colorful things we can do.

I think that along with Christmas, this is the resident’s favorite holiday.

I have the money in hand for the Halloween pumpkin painting supplies.

For those itching to contribute, we can only accept cards, cutouts, letters, and new and wrapped favors from the outside world during the pandemic (feel free to join in – The Mansion Halloween, 11 S. Union Avenue Cambridge, N.Y., Cambridge, 12816.

The residents love to play witches. So do the aides. You can imagine the jokes.

Stay tuned for further details; this is an intense determined gang gathering to pull off this event. Maria and Tania will have a blast plotting the artwork.

I’m having a good time marauding across the Internet looking for spooky and safe things to get draped around that arch. I’m scoring on bargains and weird things.