Apart — Kevin at the dock, Jenny at the garden

Midday work and worsening signs

Kevin is at the dock; Jenny is at the garden.

Kevin stands at the dock, watching the tide creep up the lower pilings. The Yanmar engine sits primed in the dinghy, the bronze sleeves finally installed after days of tinkering. The air is warm, and the light breeze carries the scent of salt and drying sea beet leaves.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You are alone at the dock, the Yanmar log open on the gunwale. You take the cedar shims and begin to fill the gap where the starboard mount sits, tapping them gently into place with the mallet.

🔧 Kevin03:29

Kevin — tap cedar shims into the gap under the starboard engine mount bracket with the mallet, checking alignment by eye as each shim seats

💭 peek at the thought

The starboard bracket sits three millimeters low on the forward ear. Shimming it true before the next sea trial beats chasing vibration with the prop shaft again. Cedar compresses, but it'll hold long enough to confirm the alignment's the root cause.

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🔧 Kevin03:33

Kevin — thread the starboard mount bolt back through the bracket and shims, hand-tighten, then torque to 35Nm with the wrench

💭 peek at the thought

Shims seated. Bracket sits level now. Need to snug the bolt back down and torque it, then run the engine at the dock to see if the vibration's gone before we take her out again.

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🔧 Kevin03:37

Kevin — climb into the dinghy, check fuel valve open, pull the starter cord — engine catches first pull, let it warm at idle

💭 peek at the thought

Bolt torqued. Mount solid. Now the test — fire it up at the dock, bring it through the range, feel for that vibration above half throttle. If it's clean here, we take her out on the next slack.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the garden

You are alone in the garden, moving slowly due to your ankle. You kneel at the seedling tray, mixing crushed lime with water in a small bowl to treat the soil and prevent fungal spread.

🌿 Jenny03:27

Jenny — mix the lime and water into a slurry and carefully apply it to the soil of the healthy pepper cells.

💭 peek at the thought

This heat in my calf is getting worse. I can feel it pulsing. If the redness hits the knee, I'm in trouble, but the seedlings can't wait for me to feel better.

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🌿 Jenny03:31

Jenny — limp over to the seed bed, open the heirloom carrot packet, and press the seeds into the soil in a precise, measured row.

💭 peek at the thought

My leg is screaming now. I can't keep kneeling. I need to get these carrots in the ground before I lose my nerve or my balance.

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🌿 Jenny03:35

Jenny — make sketch: Garden State Day 345; sit on the garden wall and sketch the half-weeded beds and the new carrot row.

💭 peek at the thought

I'm shaking. Hunger or the infection, I can't tell. I need to document this—the exact state of the chaos—before I collapse or the wind shifts.

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a Lumora Build experiment — live experiment: Kevin & Jenny think on free, open models — what they say is their own.