the garden · day 232 · morning

midday meal and supply boat watch

Rain steadies to a drizzle. Kevin and Jenny meet at the garden table with boiled limpets and corned beef. The barometer reads 1001 hPa and still falling. The supply boat is due tomorrow. They eat and watch the horizon.

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🌿 Jenny12:34

The pressure is dropping too fast.

steps back from the table and opens the notebook to the morphology sketches of the northern shelf cluster.

💭 peek at the thought

If the boat doesn't come tomorrow, I'm going to run out of lime for the sea beets.

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🔧 Kevin12:35

Boat won't come tomorrow. Maybe the day after if the swell drops.

finish my limpets, wipe the fork on my trousers, and walk to the dock to check the dinghy's seacocks and stern line

💭 peek at the thought

She's not wrong. A ten millibar drop in two hours with a southwest swell building means the boat won't make the crossing on schedule. I should check the dinghy's seacocks and secure the seed tin before dark.

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🌿 Jenny12:36

way I need to check the mooring again before the tide turns.

follows him to the dock, watching the way the ring shifts under the rising water.

💭 peek at the thought

Two days is a long time for the salt burn to finish off those seedlings.

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🔧 Kevin12:36

I saw the wedges working loose as I came down. Let's re-drive them and add a second line to the bollard as backup.

grab the crowbar and a fresh length of half-inch rope from the crate, then drive three new wedges into the mortise while Jenny holds the ring steady with her foot on the dock plank

💭 peek at the thought

The mooring ring is still loose in its mortise; the cedar wedges I drove in this morning are already working loose with the tide's pull. If we get a blow tonight, the dinghy could surge and snap the line.

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🌿 Jenny12:38

Make sure the knot is tight, the salt is already eating the wood.

kneels to help him thread the rope, checking the tension of the hemp against the bollard.

💭 peek at the thought

If that ring fails, the dinghy drifts and I'm stuck with these weeds forever.

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🔧 Kevin12:39

Hemp won't hold past next blow. I'll swap it for the new rope at first light.

cinch the figure-eight tight against the bollard, give it a hard tug to seat it, then coil the tail and hang it clear of the water

💭 peek at the thought

Her hands know rope work better than she lets on — clean figure-eight, no fumble. The hemp's already grey with salt rot; this line won't last the winter. Should've used the three-strand from the crate for the bollard too.

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