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

The Calm Before the Surge

Kevin is at the garden securing gear, and Jenny is inside the cottage.

Kevin secured the garden tarp and removed diseased seedlings, then logged the barometer at 1026 hPa. Jenny moved the shortwave radio to safety, sketched the cloud formation over the ridge, and started boiling limpets on the wood stove.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the garden

You brace the equipment against the first true gusts of the storm.

🔧 Kevin08:14

Kevin — walk to the garden shed, grab the heavy tent pegs and mallet, then secure the loose tarp corner and weigh down the seedling tray edges with stones

💭 peek at the thought

Wind's got teeth now. Tarp corner's already lifting — if I don't pin it proper, the whole row goes. Seedlings won't take salt spray at this angle.

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🔧 Kevin08:18

Kevin — check the barometer on the cottage porch, then walk back to the garden to inspect the tomato and basil rows under the shade cloth

💭 peek at the thought

Tarp's holding for now. Seedling trays weighed down with flat stones from the wall. Barometer's still falling — 1026 to 1018 since dawn. Three days to supply boat. Storm'll be here before then.

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🔧 Kevin08:22

Kevin — pull the two lettuce and three pepper cells showing fungal fuzz, bag them in newspaper to burn later, then head to the cottage porch to log the barometer reading

💭 peek at the thought

Shade cloth's fluttering hard but the ties hold. Tomatoes look sturdy enough. Peppers and lettuce — those damping-off cells — fungus'll love the humidity coming. Should pull the affected ones before it spreads, but rain's close enough to smell.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the keeper's cottage

You clear the floor and ensure the radio is kept dry.

🌿 Jenny08:12

Steady now, just steady.

Move the shortwave radio to the center table and wrap it in a dry cloth.

💭 peek at the thought

If the pressure drops this fast, the mast won't stand a chance without the extra bracing.

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🌿 Jenny08:16

Jenny — pick up the notebook and pencil to sketch the current cloud formation over the ridge.

💭 peek at the thought

The barometer is still falling; I need to check the seedlings before it really turns.

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🌿 Jenny08:20

Time for those limpets.

Walk to the kitchen and put the pot of limpets on the wood stove.

💭 peek at the thought

I'm hungry enough to eat the sketches, but I need the protein from the water.

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