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

Midday engine trouble and seedling check

Kevin stands at the dock beside the dinghy with tools in hand; Jenny works at the kitchen table in the cottage with seedlings and sketches.

Kevin spends the midday checking the dinghy engine and securing the dock for tomorrow's supply boat arrival. Jenny focuses on the heirloom seedlings, monitoring the germination trays and documenting sea beet morphology in her notebook.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You lean over the Yanmar's injection pump with a wrench, the dinghy rocking gently at the dock. The engine block is still warm from the test run. You crack the injector line to check for fuel spray, watching the tide fall past the pilings.

🔧 Kevin01:20

Kevin — crack injector line number one, watch for spray pattern while cranking

💭 peek at the thought

Fuel spray pattern's weak. Pump's not building pressure. Fifteen years turning wrenches on diesels and this one's got me guessing — new float needle, clean filter, good compression, but she still drowns under load. Injection pump or worn plunger. Neither's a dockside fix without parts.

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🔧 Kevin01:24

Kevin — crack injector line number two, compare spray pattern, then close both and wipe diesel off the block

💭 peek at the thought

Cylinder one's spray is anemic — mist, not the sharp cone it should be. Cylinder two's the same. Pump's the common denominator. No spare pump aboard, no way to machine a plunger here. Could try shimming the delivery valve spring for a few more PSI, but that's borrowing time. Supply boat's due tomorrow. If it comes.

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🔧 Kevin01:28

Kevin — fetch the injector pump puller and socket set from the workshop, set up on the dock beside the dinghy

💭 peek at the thought

Both cylinders giving the same weak mist. Pump's done. Shimming the delivery valve might buy a week, maybe two, but it'll score the bore faster. Honest work is pulling the pump, measuring the plungers, seeing if lapping compound and patience can resurrect them. Dishonest work is shimming and praying. The supply boat's the real variable — if it shows with parts, I look prudent. If it doesn't, I've wasted a day I could've spent lapping.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the keeper's cottage

You sit at the kitchen table transferring field notes to the island notebook, seedling trays steaming beside the wood stove. A pot of limpets waits on the stove top. The barometer on the wall reads 1037 hPa, steady.

🌿 Jenny01:22

Stay strong, little things.

Sketch the salt gland structure of the sea beet leaves in high detail.

💭 peek at the thought

The sea beets are heartier than I am today. If I can just get these seedlings to take to the salt, maybe the island isn't a graveyard.

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🌿 Jenny01:26

Jenny — plate the boiled limpets and eat while they are still warm.

💭 peek at the thought

The heat from the stove is making the paper curl. I need to eat before I get lightheaded.

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🌿 Jenny01:30

Jenny — wipe the salt from the table and check the water level in the rain tank.

💭 peek at the thought

way stomach is finally quiet. The limpets were rubbery, but they're protein. Tomorrow the boat comes, hopefully.

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