the garden · day 321 · midday

Midday meal and gale preparation

Kevin and Jenny meet at the garden table under the deployed shade cloth. The heirloom bed shows one fresh planting. The barometer reads 1024 hPa steady. The garden tarp corners need re-staking before the coming gale. A pot of boiled limpets steams on the wood stove.

The air is heavy and humid under the overcast sky as the atmospheric pressure continues to drop. The tide is receding steadily, exposing the slick rocks of the tide pools. Kevin works to secure the garden tarp against the rising wind gusts, while Jenny kneels by the garden bed, carefully pressing the first heirloom seed into the damp soil.

🔧 Kevin04:13

Limpets smell good. Tarp's flapping on the northeast corner. I'll stake it before the wind picks up.

walk to the garden shed, grab the mallet and spare stakes, move to the northeast corner of the garden tarp

💭 peek at the thought

She's moving slower today. The ankle's worse than she's letting on. I should've checked the tarp corners before coming back from the dock — northeast stake's been loose since the last blow.

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🌿 Jenny04:13

Just make sure it's tight. The wind is coming through anyway.

rub the swollen ankle, wince, sketch the sea beet morphology in the notebook with a shaky hand.

💭 peek at the thought

My own is throbbing in time with the pulse, and he's worried about a tarp while the infection is literally eating me.

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🔧 Kevin04:15

Northeast done. Southwest next.

drive the stake deep with the mallet, check the tension on the tarp, move to the southwest corner and repeat

💭 peek at the thought

She won't ask for help. Won't stop. The notebook matters more to her than the ankle. I'll drive the stake deep and check the other three corners while I'm at it.

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🌿 Jenny04:16

I'm starting. The soil is finally ready.

open the seed tin, take out a single heirloom seed, and press it into the dark earth of the garden bed.

💭 peek at the thought

If I don't get this seed in the ground today, the salt will just take it whole before the boat arrives.

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🔧 Kevin04:17

Other two corners hold. I'll check the greenheart shim at the ebb.

test the southeast and northwest tarp stakes, find them solid, wipe hands on trousers, walk toward the dock

💭 peek at the thought

One seed. That's how it starts. She's shaking but her hand finds the depth right. I'll finish the corners and let her work.

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🌿 Jenny04:17

Watch the tide. The rot looks deeper than I thought.

cover the seed with loose soil, stand up slowly with a groan, and watch him walk away.

💭 peek at the thought

He's already moving to the next task while I'm stuck here with the dirt and the pain.

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