Hi, and thank you for choosing

Antonio’s today!

 Above are our annual pumpkin men on Holcomb Street in Simsbury. You can easily see the images going left to right is Lisa, Kat, Tommy and Johnny… at least I can. ;D There’s also one of me on the tractor pulling the hay wagon, but you’ll have to drive by to see that!

     Lisa is not in the picture above because, while the kids and I were struggling away at the hard work of pumpkin-men building; she was lucky enough to spend a few days with her mom, sister and brother in Colorado. 

     Speaking of Lisa, on a personal note, she’s begun the new miracle drug Rasonque. We appreciate the love, prayers and support we continue to be blessed with.

     Here at the restaurant, it’s all hands-on-deck preparing for Cabbage Night! Many years ago, this was a night of mischief. My Mom however, wanted us to be able to express ourselves, but not in a malicious way. This was also back when the Simsbury Flower Bridge was still in use. (Yes, I’m old)! The locals would throw streams of toilet paper up over the iron girders and it was so cool to drive through. My Mom decided we too, could toss toilet paper…but not in traffic. So, since 1968 we have been throwing toilet paper in OUR OWN trees (and cleaning it up every day afterwards).  

     This will be the 58th year that we celebrate this night, and hope to have multiple truck-loads of non-perishables to donate to the Simsbury Food Closet. We will yet again try to outdo our record by throwing 672,500 feet of toilet paper. Also known as 1,345 individual rolls. We will feature our huge catapults as well and modified blower/sprayers. Please join in the fun starting at 4:00 pm on Friday October 30th. Also, please consider donating non-perishable food for each roll of toilet paper that you’d like to throw/launch/catapult.

Thanks for being here! 

Sincerely,
Steven and all of us here at Antonio’s