Helper

This morning chopping wood I had some great help. An Austrian family was visiting Anette, and they had a young boy about 7 or 8. He seemed to be interested in helping yesterday, and today he came up and started by helping me to stack and sort. Then he started to help me with the splitting, while I held the log and wedge, he would go to town with the hatchet. It was pretty amusing, and it was really funny for the two of us to try and communicate, because he only new German. All in all, I think we did a great job, and he even taught me about insects, they have six legs, all in German.
This afternoon I had a great riding lesson. I've been on horses not quite two weeks now, and today I got to try jumping! They weren't very impressive jumps, but at a trot I rode a horse over maybe a 12in. jump. Pretty fun. It was a good day for riding, Eric and I got along well, and it wasn't until the end that we both got tired and confused. It seems to me that when I ride I eventually end up getting fatigued and start talking gibberish to the horse. It's just a matter of how long he and I can keep it together.