Every one knows that one ! Hard work will never kill you ! Well good thing that one is true ! It takes a few weeks of hard work to get you back to where you don’t hurt all over ! Worked yesterday with the big timbers and all the walking was like many of the days here on Holloway Bar, your all over doing what it take to get one in the hunt for gold ! 
Watching My Back
Miss Busy was working with me all day, she seem to know the importunes of the job we were doing today ! She watched over me very close today working around the river !
McDame Creek
You fall in the river it is all over for you ! Cold water, fast water, big rocks, bang bang on the rocks, your dead ! Fish Food 
Miss Busy And Her Nose
She takes good care of her family ! We live, work, eat, sleep together ! I do love this about gold mining ! This girl is Magic she is telling me what is going on two miles away ! Dogs with jobs are happy dogs. Spring time in the north land and the Big Bears are moving around and its the time of year you just do not want to walk into one while he is going his way and you are going your way ! Its good to live with one and not three or four bears ! Little Thunder is Big Ben’s son and he was shown by Ben what not to do ! Sad to think Ben may be gone but its a good feeling knowing that he left me his son to watch over us a Holloway Bar and its up to me to keep him safe, like I did for his dad ! Respect a good bear and he will do the work for you, keeping his block, area safe and all that is in it. Its all his ! 
Fat Fingers & Slivers
In the morning its a bit of a slow start ! Coffee is number one but if you can not hang on to it ! My fingers get big and fat from the day before work. Slivers are a bad one ! You wear gloves when you can but they’re not on all the time. Wood slivers and steel slivers your digging out of your hands all the time at the mine. Its good to have an eyepiece to see and a pair of good tweezers to pull them big bad ones out ! More coffee please