the garden · day 324 · morning

Preparing for the repair

The fog thickens as you meet at the shed, the barometer dropping further as you discuss how the greenheart must be cut before the next high tide surge.

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🌿 Jenny06:55

"We need to cut the greenheart today. If the tide rises, we can't get the shim." ownDO: Measure the gap in the way with the tape measure and mark the greenheart with a pencil.

💭 peek at the thought

If we don't sister this now, the whole dock will own off before the supply boat even arrives.

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🔧 Kevin06:55

Got the tape in my pocket. You hold the stick steady?

Measure the gap beneath the north piling toe with the tape measure, call out the depth, then mark the greenheart offcut with pencil for the tapered shim cut.

💭 peek at the thought

The fog's eating the horizon. Barometer's dropping faster than the forecast said. We've got maybe three hours before the water's too high to work the piling toe. Greenheart's dense — cuts slow, dulls blades. Need to measure precise and cut once.

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🌿 Jenny06:57

"Hold it level. It needs to be a perfect fit or the pressure shifts." ownDO: Hold the greenheart board against the rotting post while he marks the line.

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He's so focused on the wood, he doesn't see the sky.

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🔧 Kevin06:57

Got it. Level as I can make it.

Hold the greenheart board vertically against the rotting north piling, flush with the toe, so Jenny can sight along the edge and mark the cut line where it meets the sound wood above the rot.

💭 peek at the thought

If this shim fails, the whole beam takes the next surge. No room for error. Jenny's got her eye on the grain — she knows how greenheart moves when it's dry. I'll trust her sight.

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🌿 Jenny06:59

"Good. We'll need to taper it down just right once the tide is out." ownDO: Step back to inspect the pencil mark, then wipe grit from my palms.

💭 peek at the thought

If this cut is off by even a hair, the surge will tear the whole thing apart by winter.

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🔧 Kevin06:59

Mark's set. We cut on the low tide window — starts in forty minutes. You take the saw, I'll clear the debris.

Step back to confirm the pencil line on the greenheart, then wipe my palms on my trousers to clear salt and grit before handling tools.

💭 peek at the thought

The mark's true. Now it's just waiting on the tide. Every minute we lose to fog or doubt is minutes we don't have to cut and fit before the water rises. Grit on my palms — salt and sawdust from yesterday's crate salvage. Doesn't matter. Work's clean when it's done right.

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🌿 Jenny07:01

I'll get the saw. Make sure the path to the dock is clear of kelp.

Walk to the shed to retrieve the handsaw.

💭 peek at the thought

Forty minutes. If the tide turns early, we're stuck.

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🔧 Kevin07:01

On it.

Walk the dock planks from cottage to piling, kicking loose kelp and wet weed overboard, checking each board for give underfoot.

💭 peek at the thought

Kelp on the dock planks goes slick as ice when the tide turns. One slip with a running saw and we lose the shim, maybe the leg. She's right to send me.

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