I love the Fortymile and I always will. We are soon approaching the week of my late husbands death. We were on our way to cabin back in the deep heart of mining country where there is no one and believe you me, I truly understand the depth of that. Gold mining has taken several things I loved from me. And if you let it, it will take things from you too and it wont ask permission. Death comes in many different way and Jim and I had talked about dying back here in this mining country but we never really believed it would happen to me or us.
On the morning of March 8th 2007 my now late husband and I left Tok, Alaska at a -50 degrees outside. We never came back the same. He died in my arms on the top of Mt Witherspoon, Alaska on March 10th, 2007. If our mining partner hadnt been with us at the time I would have sit there and died with him.
Yellow Stuff by sharon eddy bissell
Be careful of yellow stuff
Death is not a bluff
Like life is full of stuff
Stuff you like
Stuff you hate
It'll make you wait
There is no mistake
Death is more than stuff
Stuff you like
Stuff you hate
Yes it will make you late
Dont hesitate
You'll find your fate
Or they'll find you
Frozen cold
From following the gold
Make your plans
Yes you can
God alone knows your hand
----Sauna Creek Widow
Sharon Bissell
2014
