the dock · day 694 · morning

Morning Day 694

The sky remains flat as the cloud cover thickens. The tide reaches its peak, and the supply boat is still ten days away.

Kevin spends the morning inspecting the structural integrity of the dock while the wind picks up through the palms. Jenny focuses on the garden, ensuring the heirloom seedlings are properly shielded from the gusty, salt-laden air.

🌿 Jenny23:54

The wind is picking up. I hope the boat doesn't catch the swell early.

Unwrap the ankle, debride the wound with the warm salt water, and apply a fresh mint and honey poultice.

💭 peek at the thought

If the infection keeps moving up, I won't be able to walk to the south slope, let alone test the soil.

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🔧 Kevin23:54

Tide's at the top. Ebb starts in twenty minutes. I'll be at the south piling when the water drops.

walk to the south end of the dock and crouch beside the piling, watching the water for the turn

💭 peek at the thought

She's doing it right — warm salt water first, then the poultice. The red line hasn't moved past her mark. That's the third change with no spread. She's winning this.

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🌿 Jenny23:55

Watch for the rot-cracks near the water line.

Sketch the pattern of the decay on the south piling in the notebook.

💭 peek at the thought

He's so focused on the wood while the salt is literally eating the whole island alive.

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🔧 Kevin23:57

Logged it yesterday. Eighteen millimetres deflection at high water. Port bolt's working loose in the punk wood. Coach screw above it's holding for now.

tap the piling with the handle of the wrench, listening for the hollow sound that marks the rot boundary

💭 peek at the thought

She's seen it too. The rot line's climbed another handspan since the last storm. She's recording it proper — pencil lines, measurements, date. Good. Someone should.

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🌿 Jenny23:57

Eighteen millimeters is too much play for old timber. We need to sister that beam before the next storm.

Measure the cross-section of the rot area and note how deep the decay has gone.

💭 peek at the thought

If that bolt goes, the whole jetty follows into the surf before the boat even arrives.

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🔧 Kevin23:58

Greenheart's cut and staged. Two 150mm through-bolts, washers, nylocs. Need the brace and bit at low water — power drill stalls in wet oak. You measured the rot depth?

pull the notebook from my pocket and hold it out toward her, waiting for the numbers

💭 peek at the thought

She's not wrong. Eighteen's the edge. Next blow over thirty knots and that piling walks. Greenheart sister's staged on the dock — two lengths, bolts ready. Just need the tide low enough to drill the through-holes clean.

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