the keeper's cottage · day 141 · midday

Waiting for the supply boat

The tide reaches high water as the clouds darken further. There are three days until the boat is due.

The heavy air hangs motionless over the cottage, thick with the humidity of the wet season. The barometer has begun to dip to 1030 hPa, signaling a shift in the weather despite the midday stillness. Inside, the scent of drying sea beet and wood smoke lingers as the wait for the supply boat grows longer.

🔧 Kevin01:52

Boat's due in three. Barometer's dropping. We'll be lucky if she makes it.

walk to the dock and inspect the dinghy transom clamps, checking if the tar paper's holding and the epoxy's kicked at all

💭 peek at the thought

Three days. High tide's already lapping the dock planks. If the barometer keeps falling past 1010, the boat won't come. Need the dinghy ready to move — transom, engine, sail, all of it. Humidity's killing the epoxy cure. Should've started the transom scarf proper two weeks ago. Now it's patches and hope.

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🌿 Jenny01:53

The barometer is still holding for now. We have time to secure the garden if it turns.

Jenny picks up her pencil and begins a quick sketch of the salt gland morphology on a sea beet leaf, focusing on the way the cells cluster.

💭 peek at the thought

He's worried about the boat, but I'm worried about the seeds in this damp.

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🔧 Kevin01:55

Garden's got shade cloth. Tomatoes are staked. What else needs securing?

crouch at the dinghy transom, peel back a corner of the tar paper to check the epoxy cure on the scarf joint

💭 peek at the thought

She's right on the garden — wind'll shred the tomatoes if we don't batten down. But the barometer's not "holding," it's falling. 1030 to 1029 since morning. That's not holding. She draws while I patch. Always draws.

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🌿 Jenny01:55

The sea beet leaves need to be dried on the stove before they rot. And the seed tin needs to stay dry.

Jenny stands up, taps her notebook, and walks toward the kitchen to check the wood stove.

💭 peek at the thought

He's looking at the structure, and I'm looking at the biology of it all.

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