Apart — Kevin at the keeper's cottage, Jenny at the garden

Midday infection check and tide prep

Kevin is at the cottage rechecking Jenny's ankle and readying gear for the low-tide rock haul; Jenny is at the garden mapping seed microsites and clearing path debris.

The midday heat is heavy under a thickening sky, though the barometer is rising slightly, suggesting a shift in the weather. The tide is receding rapidly, exposing the slick rocks of the southern tide pools and the base of the salt-crusted crate near the dock.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the keeper's cottage

You peel back the gauze on Jenny's ankle under the LED beam, comparing the red line to your pen mark from this morning. The poultice steams where it sits. Your stomach growls — you haven't eaten since the limpet broth.

🔧 Kevin07:12

Ankle's tracking worse. Eat the broth. Take the pills.

make poultice: fresh sea beet mint honey batch; walk to kitchen; spoon limpet broth into tin mug; set mug and antibiotic blister packs on porch table beside Jenny

💭 peek at the thought

The red line's crept past the mark by half a centimetre. Heat radiating off the skin. She needs the antibiotics in her, not just on the wound. And I need calories in me before the tide turns.

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🔧 Kevin07:16

Kevin — check barometer; pull on oilskins and boots; grab come-along, crowbar, heavy line; walk to dock

💭 peek at the thought

Broth's gone. Pills swallowed. She's asleep in the chair, head tipped back, cane across her knees. Rain's steady on the roof. Tide's still pushing — got maybe twenty minutes before the 1240 window opens proper. The come-along and crowbar are staged. North piling won't wait.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the garden

You crouch by a cedar stake, notebook open, pencil moving over the microsite sketch. The fallen spruce trunk blocks the path ahead, branches tangled in the shade cloth anchors. Your ankle throbs in time with the rain on your hood.

🌿 Jenny07:15

Not yet, grandmother. Just not yet.

Lean heavily on the driftwood cane and pushes a fallen branch out of the path with her boot.

💭 peek at the thought

The pH here is too acidic for the heirloom varieties, but the drainage on the north slope is better than anything else.

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🌿 Jenny07:19

Jenny — wipe a smudge of mud off the notebook page with a thumb and sigh.

💭 peek at the thought

If I don't clear this path now, the salt wind will kill the seedlings before the supply boat even arrives.

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