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Monday, February 16, 2015

-1 Degrees

My phone froze this morning.  After my run when I tried to bring it out of sleep, it shut down with a big "Battery Empty" display.  It continued to do that until it warmed up, and then started up and showed a nearly full battery.










Sunday, February 08, 2015

Chololo Ranch

Phil Ruth and I spent some time on Chololo Ranch during our travels through Kenya during 1980. The crazy lady in charge was Florence Schieren.  We have stories.


Phil was able to dig up this information on Florence.



Florence Louise Schieren
Birth: 3 Dec 1910 in Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA

Residence:
1 June 1925 (Age: 14)
North Hempstead, Nassau, New York, United States; New York,State Census, 1925

Residence:
1930 (Age: 20)
Kings Point, Nassau, New York; 1930 United States FederalCensus

Death:
Jun 1986 (Age: 75)
Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii  



We stayed in a mud hut at Chololo ranch.  It turned out that mud hut living is not nearly as idyllic as I imagined.  This is from my journal.