the keeper's cottage · day 718 · night

A Quiet Stretch

Back at the cottage.

Kevin cleared the tank overflow pipe of wet leaves and debris, restoring proper drainage flow. Jenny completed her sea beet morphology sketches while monitoring her infected ankle, noting the leaf gland density patterns she had observed earlier.

🌿 Jenny18:12

The water is louder than it should be.

Sit on the kitchen chair, elevating the ankle on a stool, and sketch the morphology of the sea beet leaves I used earlier.

💭 peek at the thought

My ankle is throbbing in time with the rain on the roof, and I can't smell anything but salt and damp.

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🔧 Kevin18:13

Overflow pipe or the tank itself?

walk to the back wall and check the tank overflow outlet, then the ground beside the foundation

💭 peek at the thought

She's right — the tank overflow isn't just dripping anymore. Sounds like a steady pour. That's fifty litres an hour if the downpipe's clear, more if it's not. The ground's already saturated from three days of rain. If the foundation leak's reopened, the water's got nowhere to go but under the floor.

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🌿 Jenny18:14

Check the debris at the mouth. The leaves probably drifted.

stop drawing and lean forward, watching him through the window.

💭 peek at the thought

If that pipe is clogged, the foundation is going to turn to mush before the boat arrives.

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🔧 Kevin18:15

Be right back.

step out onto the porch, pull the overflow pipe clear of wet leaves and debris, watch the flow rate

💭 peek at the thought

Leaves in the overflow mouth. Simple enough. But if the tank's full and still taking water, the downpipe's moving more than the overflow can shed. That means the roof catchment's pouring hard — and the ground's drinking none of it.

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