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Since I've grown up, had kids and now grandkids, I
still have
Our first Halloween away from Chicago was
in Denver Colorado in 1979 where I was stationed for a school after being commissioned. We were living in a very
nice apartment complex in Aurora just outside Denver and there was an
abundance of younger couples with kids. Carrie was still a baby then but Brandy and Denise
were both old enough to enjoy Trick-or-Treating around the complex.
Late October weather in Denver was pleasant and I remember it as rather
warm during the day and cool but still comfortable in When we lived in Biloxi, about the only thing that would spoil Halloween was a downpour or a hurricane and late October evenings in Southern Mississippi were normally still shirt-sleeve weather. If anything, it was sometimes a bit on the warm side for some of the costumes. While we were there we threw a couple
Halloween costume parties at our house. They were popular
with the flyers at
the 7th ACCS where I was assigned and
Hawaii was pretty much always beautiful weather for Halloween (and most any other time as well). Halloween wasn't quite as big a thing with the locals but there were a lot of military families living in Mililani where we owned a house and we always had a decent turn-out for Trick-or-Treat. We had a couple Halloween parties at our house there as well, continuing the tradition of inviting the people who worked with me at Pacific Command and the nurses that worked with Hil at Queen Emma Hospital in Honolulu. We had a 16x35' in-ground pool in the back yard with a diving board (it took up almost half of our Hawaii-sized back yard). Everyone brought bathing suits and when the costumes just got too warm, a quick dip in the pool was just the ticket to cool off. Our first Halloween there (1984) was also our first party in our new (to us) house; the first of many parties in that house during almost 4 years that we lived on the Island. On Halloween afternoon, as Hil was making veggies and other "finger food" for the party, one of our daughters ran to me to tell me green water was coming up into their bathtub. When I want and looked...sure enough, green water. This was our first home with a garbage disposal and I guess we hadn't gotten the "hang of it" yet. It seems Hil was putting the veggie pealing in the disposal so quickly that they clogged the pipes. I had to find the outside drain plug (not that easy since we'd only been in the house a short while and I had to hunt all over to find it) and feed the garden hose into it to blast the clog out. If that weren't enough, about half an hour
after the party started, the entire neighborhood lost power. It
When we moved to South Carolina, we found
the weather
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