Apart — Kevin at the dock, Jenny at the garden

Afternoon tasks on dock and garden

Kevin is at the dock shaping a reinforcement for the mooring ring; Jenny is in the garden preparing limpets for lunch.

Kevin spent the afternoon at the dock attempting to reinforce the loose mooring ring which has been shifting under load. Jenny focused on the garden, checking the heirloom seedlings and managing the shade cloth in the heat.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You are fitting the shaped sister knee against the loose mooring ring in the mortise, marking where it contacts the dock timber. You drill pilot holes for the bronze bolts you recovered earlier, preparing to draw the ring tight against the new wood.

🔧 Kevin09:54

Kevin — mark contact line on sister knee and dock timber; drill pilot holes for bronze bolts through sister knee into dock mortise

💭 peek at the thought

The wood here is softer than I expected—more rot beneath the surface. This sister knee needs to bite deep, or it’ll just be a patch. I’m marking where it sits true, then drilling through both so the bronze bolts can pull it all tight as one.

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🔧 Kevin09:58

Kevin — fit sister knee into mortise against mooring ring; insert bronze bolts through knee and ring; tighten bolts alternately with wrench to draw ring tight against dock timber

💭 peek at the thought

The pilot holes are clean. The bronze bolts I recovered from the bilge still have good threads—no galling. If I drive them now, they’ll draw the ring down hard against the new knee and close that play. Just need to seat the knee first, then tighten evenly.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the garden

You are rinsing the limpets in seawater to remove grit before boiling them in the cast iron skillet over the wood stove. The limpets are fresh from the tide pools and ready to cook, their shells tightly closed.

🌿 Jenny09:53

Stay there, you little stubborn things.

Scrub the shells under the running water with a brush, then drop them into the skillet with a splash of water.

💭 peek at the thought

My knees are throbbing from that kneeling, and the salt air is making my eyes sting again.

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🌿 Jenny09:56

Almost there.

Place the lid over the skillet and wait for the shells to pop open.

💭 peek at the thought

The steam is starting to rise, and the smell of the ocean is filling the kitchen.

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