An evening well-spent!

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Horse Jr. did the typical 11-year-old thing and played too much Minecraft, leaving an important school assignment only half done. His mom was mad at him, he was freaking out, so he called me at about 4:30 PM and asked whether he could come over and work on his assignment with me. His assignment is to write a paper and do a presentation on a State. Of course, he chose Montana, as he knows that's where I go every Summer while he's in Europe. He sat on my bed with his laptop, I sat at my desk with my computer on, and we basically had a four-hour discussion as he wrote. I sent him home at 8:30 with the assignment done. His mom was worried that I was doing the assignment for him, but I was not. He did ask me questions about apostrophes and things like that. And I did remind him Yellowstone and Glacier Park have the most remaining grizzly bears in the United States. I DID teach him what "Continental Divide" means, but it was up to him to express it in his own words. I think we both had a good time. I took this photo last Summer. The Gallatin River is a tributary to the Missouri River, which, in turn, is ultimately a large tributary to the Mississippi River.