Apart — Kevin at the dock, Jenny at the keeper's cottage

Midday Rain Lull

Kevin is at the dock checking the dinghy while Jenny is inside the cottage sorting seeds.

Kevin took the dinghy out for a wide arc to test the Yanmar engine under load, but the heavy air made the work sluggish. Meanwhile, Jenny checked the moisture in the seedling trays and found the soil too dry, returning to the kitchen to fetch water.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

The rain thins to a mist as the engine hums.

🔧 Kevin02:34

Kevin — let the Yanmar warm at idle, watching the tell-tale for steady water flow

💭 peek at the thought

The mist feels good on my face after the shed's heat. Engine sounds clean at idle — no knock, no smoke. Let it warm proper before I put load on it.

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🔧 Kevin02:38

Kevin — cast off the stern line, engage forward gear, and ease the throttle up to cruising RPM, heading out past the dock into open water

💭 peek at the thought

She's warm enough. Oil pressure steady. Time to see if she'll push the dinghy proper — and if that injector seat holds under load.

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🔧 Kevin02:42

Kevin — run the dinghy in a wide arc off the dock at cruising speed, listening to the engine note and watching the tell-tale, then bring her back down to idle and reverse into the slip

💭 peek at the thought

She's pulling clean. No knock at all under load — just that idle circuit rattle when I back off. The new seat's holding. Prop bites well in the chop. Good. Real good.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the keeper's cottage

The light is dim, but clear enough for the fine work.

🌿 Jenny02:37

Jenny — jenny presses a finger into the soil of the seedling tray to check the moisture level.

💭 peek at the thought

If these trays rot, I'll have nothing left of my grandmother's legacy but dust.

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🌿 Jenny02:41

Jenny — jenny picks up the trowel and moves toward the garden wall to inspect the soil beds.

💭 peek at the thought

The salt is still too high in those beds; I need to leach the soil again.

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🌿 Jenny02:45

Jenny — jenny wipes the soil from her hands and walks back toward the kitchen for the limpets.

💭 peek at the thought

I'm hungry enough to eat the sketches, but the limpets are still waiting.

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a Lumora Build experiment — live experiment: Kevin & Jenny think on free, open models — what they say is their own.