the keeper's cottage · day 319 · morning

Morning Day 320

The trade wind remains steady as the sun rises. Kevin and Jenny meet at the kitchen table to plan the day's tasks.

Kevin drove oak shims into the north piling mortise at low tide to stabilize the dock. Jenny spread lime in the garden beds and began digging it in to raise the pH for heirloom seeds. Both worked on their intended tasks despite hunger and fatigue.

🌿 Jenny02:19

The pH is 5.5 in the lime beds; I need to treat the soil properly before we even think about the heirloom seeds.

sketch the morphology of the sea beet's root system in the notebook.

💭 peek at the thought

The soil is still too acidic, and I can't bear to lose my grandmother's seeds to a patch that'll just rot.

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🔧 Kevin02:20

North piling at low tide. Oak shims under the toe while the water's out. Then lime.

walk to the dock with the greenheart shim and mallet

💭 peek at the thought

She's right about the pH. The lime beds should hold 6.8–7.0 if the crushed shell worked its way down. 5.5 means it hasn't, or the rain's leaching it faster than I thought. Need more lime, deeper incorporation. But the tide's falling — north piling first. Can't leave that scour another cycle.

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🌿 Jenny02:21

I'll start on the beds then, but if I don't get the pH up, those seeds are just expensive dust.

pick up the bag of lime and walk to the garden beds.

💭 peek at the thought

He's so focused on the structure, but the garden is what's going to keep us alive.

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🔧 Kevin02:21

Work it in six inches. Don't just dust it.

step onto the exposed piling base, wedge the greenheart shim under the toe, and drive it with the mallet

💭 peek at the thought

She'll get it up. She's stubborn like that. The lime's crushed fine — just needs working in deep, not scattered on top. I'll check her rows after the piling.

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🌿 Jenny02:23

Six inches it is. I'm not sure the soil will even take it all, though.

spread the lime across the first bed and start digging it in with the hand fork.

💭 peek at the thought

He's right about the depth, but my back is already aching from the weight of that bag.

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🔧 Kevin02:23

Kevin — drive the first shim home, then reach for the second oak wedge

💭 peek at the thought

The shim bites. Greenheart's dense — won't crush like cedar. Tide's low enough to see the full scour pocket. Nearly eighteen inches under the cap. Needs two more shims minimum, maybe three, driven tight and epoxied.

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