Antelope BuckOff on an adventure! I'm leaving early to go meet Sandra at Atlantic City Mercantile. Bonnie is going along with me. She suggested that I don't go down the back way along the mountains on the dirt road because of the recent storm, but to go by the highway. So I'm not sure if we'll take the wild way or not. We'll have some lunch at The Merc and go see her cabin. We might have time for the Willie Hand Cart Co. site or something interesting. I should be a great day. The dogs can go too. I'll let you know tomorrow how the day goes. Betty called and looks like she will arrive for 8 or 10 days about the 20th. We're working on me going back with her, then Debbie will bring me home after a week or so and stay at the ranch for 2 or 3 weeks. It's sure something to look forward to. Dinner yesterday with Sheral and Dick turned out pretty good I guess. I can't hardly taste anything right so just try to make recipes like I always have and hope for the best. It was real enjoyable having them come over. By Thursday they are off to Utah and will fly to Texas to see two of their kids and their families - laying by the pool in the warm Texas sun, etc. They're going to be gone until the middle of October. And then will come back to the ranch for a while before they close it up for the winter. I left my new thermal jacket over there and have to get it before they leave - maybe today. Lucky Wyoming isn't part of Canada: The U.S. War of Independence officially ended on this day in 1783 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The war, which began at Lexington and Concord in the spring of 1775, had more or less been over for two years, since Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, but the American navy continued harassing the British, and by the time the treaty was signed the American fleet had captured dozens of British ships. The treaty required Britain to recognize the independence of the United States and to cede all lands east of the Mississippi to the U.S.
