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

Engine trouble and seed preparation

Kevin is at the dock troubleshooting the overheating Yanmar; Jenny is at the cottage preparing sea-beet seed trays and checking the heirloom seedlings.

The heat is oppressive as Kevin attempts to reinforce the dock's mooring ring before the supply boat arrives. Jenny stays at the cottage to manage the sea beet seedlings while the midday sun shimmers off the sand.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You stand over the Yanmar with the inspection cover off, feeling the heat radiating off the block. The raw-water impeller housing is your first suspect — you've seen salt crystals choke them before. You need to pull the cover and check the vanes, then trace the circuit to the heat exchanger. The tide is still falling; you have time before the turn.

🔧 Kevin05:37

Kevin — pull the raw-water impeller cover and inspect the vanes for salt buildup or damage.

💭 peek at the thought

Impeller first. Salt crystals love those vanes. If they're gone, the pump's just spinning air.

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🔧 Kevin05:40

Kevin — walk to the workshop and fetch the spare raw-water impeller and gasket.

💭 peek at the thought

Three vanes snapped clean off. The rest are brittle as old bone. Salt got in past the seal and crystallized in the rubber. No flow means no cooling. Spare impeller's in the workshop.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the keeper's cottage

You sit on the porch with the sea beet seed envelope and the rescued trays, a dibber in hand. The tomato and basil seedlings are upright and green; the pepper and lettuce cells you bagged and burned show no new fuzz. You'll sow the sea beet in the empty cells, mist them, and cover with the shade cloth. The barometer holds steady at 1027.

🌿 Jenny05:38

Come on, just take for once.

Open the sea beet envelope, poke small holes in the tray soil, and press the seeds into the grit.

💭 peek at the thought

The heat is so thick it feels like breathing water; if I don't get these in the dirt, the sun will just cook them.

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🌿 Jenny05:42

Jenny — way sweat from my eyes with a forearm and look out at the shimmering dock.

💭 peek at the thought

My back is aching from the bending, and the salt is drying on the back of my neck.

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