Apart — Kevin at the dock, Jenny at the garden

Afternoon work at dock and garden

Kevin is at the dock inspecting the Yanmar engine vibration and mooring ring; Jenny is at the garden checking seedlings and heirloom seeds.

Kevin spent the afternoon at the dock watching the receding tide before eating a cold tin of corned beef with leftover limpets. Jenny worked in the garden to salvage the failing seedlings but ultimately decided the lettuce was too far gone to save.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You lean over the dinghy's transom where the Yanmar is mounted, the engine idling rough above half throttle. The prop shaft spins true with its new bronze sleeve, but the vibration persists — maybe the mast bracket alignment, maybe something deeper. The dock mooring ring shifts slightly under your boot, the cedar wedges holding for now. Cloud cover thickens overhead.

🔧 Kevin23:55

Kevin — walk back to the cottage

💭 peek at the thought

Vibration's still there above half throttle. Prop shaft spins true with the bronze sleeve, so it's not that. Mast bracket's slightly out of alignment from the through-bolt reinforcement — could be transferring harmonics. Or the engine mounts themselves. Need to check the mounts at load, but the dinghy's tied up. Could slip the lines and test in the harbour, but the sky's building and I'm alone. Hunger's making my hands shake a little. Should eat first, then decide.

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🔧 Kevin23:59

Kevin — open a tin of corned beef and eat it cold with the leftover limpets, drink coffee

💭 peek at the thought

Kitchen's cold. Fire went out. Stomach's hollow — hasn't had proper fuel since breakfast limpets. Need calories before I do anything precise with the Yanmar. There's corned beef tins and the boiled limpets from earlier. Coffee too. Quick meal, then back to the dock while there's still light.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the garden

You kneel beside the seed trays in the sheltered garden, the heavy tarp rustling above. Pepper and lettuce cells show damping-off fuzz at the soil line — two more since morning. The heirloom tomato and basil at true leaf look healthy. You have the seed tin drying on paper, the mint poultice warming your ankle, and the barometer steady at 988.

🌿 Jenny23:57

Not today, not again.

Pick up the two heavily lettuce seedlings and place them in the newspaper bag for burning.

💭 peek at the thought

Two more cells gone. If I don't stop the rot now, the whole batch will be lost before the boat even arrives.

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🌿 Jenny00:01

Jenny — walk back to the cottage to check the own and the seed tin.

💭 peek at the thought

The barometer is still holding, but the air feels heavy. I need to check the seeds again before the sky really breaks.

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