the keeper's cottage · day 473 · morning

Waiting for the Supply Boat

The sky continues to darken as the pressure holds, signaling a potential storm before the boat arrives.

The morning air is heavy and still as the tide begins its retreat. Kevin and Jenny prepare for the supply boat's arrival tomorrow, dealing with the physical toll of hunger and the lingering ache in Jenny's ankle.

🌿 Jenny08:27

The air is getting too heavy. Check the lines again.

Walk to the porch and stare at the horizon, then check the barometer one last time.

💭 peek at the thought

If that pressure drops now, the boat won't come in, and I'll be out of antibiotics by then.

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🔧 Kevin08:27

On it. Dinghy first, then the dock.

walk to the dock and inspect the dinghy's storm anchor warp tension and chafe points, then check all dock lines and cleats for slack or wear

💭 peek at the thought

Barometer holding at 991 but the sky's bruising purple-grey to the southwest. She's right — the air's got that charged stillness before a blow. Need to check the dinghy's storm anchor warp, the dock lines, and the garden tarp tie-downs before the wind picks up proper.

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🌿 Jenny08:29

Just make sure the dinghy doesn't drift if the swell picks up.

Sit on the kitchen chair, rubbing the throbbing ankle, and watch the needle on the own.

💭 peek at the thought

He's waying with the ropes while my leg is literally throbbing.

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🔧 Kevin08:29

Warp's set. Just checking the fairlead and the bitter end.

step into the dinghy and run hands along the storm anchor warp from the bow eye through the roller fairlead to the bitter end, feeling for chafe, then verify the bitter end's secured to the mast step sampson post with a proper hitch

💭 peek at the thought

She's favouring the ankle bad. The antibiotics should be kicking in by now but the swelling's stubborn. Dinghy's the priority — if she breaks loose we lose the engine, the radio, the only way off this rock. Warp's 50m of heavy weather line off the bow eye, but the chafe guard at the roller fairlead was showing wear last check.

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🌿 Jenny08:31

It's fine Kevin. I need to check the beets.

Stand up slowly, limp to the kitchen, and check the sea beet leaves in the water.

💭 peek at the thought

He's so focused on the hardware he can't see the skin peeling on me.

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