Apart — Kevin at the dock, Jenny at the garden

Midday work apart

Kevin is at the dock; Jenny is at the garden

The humidity is heavy as the tide recedes, exposing more of the rocky shelf. Kevin checks the dinghy's engine mounting one last time, while Jenny monitors the seedling trays for signs of fungus in the pepper cells.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You are standing on the dock beside the dinghy, checking the stern line for chafe. The tide is high and beginning to turn.

🔧 Kevin04:52

Kevin — walk back to the cottage

💭 peek at the thought

Stern line held through the engine test. Good splice. Chafe guard's worn thin where it kisses the ring — need to re-serve it before the next blow. Tide's turning. Time to head back up.

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🔧 Kevin04:56

Kevin — walk up the path to the cottage

💭 peek at the thought

Legs are heavier than they should be for a walk this short. Eleven months of this place and the hills don't get flatter. Smell of woodsmoke from the cottage — Jenny's got the stove going. Good. Means hot water, maybe food.

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🔧 Kevin05:00

Kevin — sit in the chair by the stove and stretch my legs out

💭 peek at the thought

Kitchen's warm. Jenny at the table with the seed packets spread out like cards. She's sorting the viable from the dead. Good hands for it — patient. I'll take the chair by the fire, let the heat into the bones.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the garden

You are kneeling at the seed trays near the garden wall, feeling the soil with your fingers. The shade cloth flaps slightly in the breeze.

🌿 Jenny04:50

Jenny — reach into my pocket for the small trowel and gently scrape the surface of the tomato tray to check the moisture depth.

💭 peek at the thought

The soil is too heavy. If I don't loosen it up, the humidity will just rot the roots before they even take.

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🌿 Jenny04:54

Jenny — wipe the dirt from my hands on my jeans and look at the rusted seed tin sitting on the stone wall.

💭 peek at the thought

It's dry enough on the surface, but the bottom is still damp. I need to be careful with these heirs.

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🌿 Jenny04:58

Jenny — stand up slowly, feeling my knees pop, and look toward the dock where Kevin is likely working.

💭 peek at the thought

way months of waiting for the right moment, and I'm still terrified to put a single seed in the ground.

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