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way of reporting. He didn’t just read the daily weather summary from the teletype. He
gave a conversational report by placing the weather map behind the microphone and
just talked about the weather. I began doing this, even going so far as sticking a weather
map on my bedroom wall to practice my delivery. I even extended this method by
verbally describing the weather when driving in my car.

CHAPTER 27 - Buying First Home
My wife, Virginia, and I lived with her parents for 5 months at their two-bedroom home
in Murray Hill. It was the gathering place for many family members who lived in
Jacksonville and surrounding communities. We drove a few blocks down Post Street to
the A&P grocery each week to purchase groceries, went to church together at the
Riverside Park Baptist Church where we were married, and enjoyed times at their
home with the young nieces that included Barbara Ann and Billie McKee, and Gail and
Donna Carter. Virginia’s mother prepared real down-home country meals. Whether it
was fried chicken or cubed steak, it could not have tasted better. If the pan-steamed
okra, the speckled butter beans, rice and gravy along with Ballard’s biscuits were not
enough, her home-made pecan pie was fit for a king!

Very few homes were air-conditioned, so the day they mounted a Fedder’s A/C in the
dining room window made summer dining a lot more comfortable. The television was

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