the dock · day 788 · morning

Rising Tides

The tide continues to rise, covering the lower rocks where the heavy wooden crate is wedged.

Kevin secured the waterlogged crate with a double-wrapped bowline and hauled it to the dock face against the current. Jenny monitored the line tension from the dock while favoring her injured ankle.

🔧 Kevin08:47

Kevin — walk to the south end of the dock, grab the half-inch three-strand rope from the coil by the piling, and wade out to the crate to secure a bowline around the rusted hasp while the water's still shallow enough to stand.

💭 peek at the thought

The crate's going underwater fast. If the tide lifts it free and the current catches it, we lose whatever's inside — and it becomes a hazard in the channel. Need to get a line on it now, before it moves.

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🌿 Jenny08:49

Kevin, watch the current! The bolts are galling!

Stand up from the table, wincing at the ankle, and walk to the edge of the dock to watch him.

💭 peek at the thought

The tide is going to take that crate if he doesn't anchor it now, and the seeds are still inside that rot.

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🔧 Kevin08:49

Get back. Sit down. I've got the line.

Wade deeper, the cold water biting at my thighs, and cinch the bowline tight around the crate's hasp before the surge takes it.

💭 peek at the thought

She's right about the current — it's picking up with the tide. But she shouldn't be on that ankle. The bolts can wait; the crate can't.

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🌿 Jenny08:51

The current is pulling too hard, use a double wrap!

Lean over the railing, gripping the rough wood until my knuckles turn white, watching the tension on the rope.

💭 peek at the thought

If he slips, the whole thing goes, and my grandmother's seeds are lost to the salt.

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🔧 Kevin08:51

Double wrap it is.

Feed a second turn around the hasp before snugging the bitter end, then haul the crate toward the dock face hand over hand, keeping the line clear of the prop.

💭 peek at the thought

Double wrap's smart — single bowline'll saw through on the hasp if the crate shifts. She's reading the water better than I am from up there.

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🌿 Jenny08:53

Watch the edge! Don't let it swing out!

Shift my weight on the good leg, feeling the throb in my ankle as I watch the rope strain.

💭 peek at the thought

He's almost there, but the wood is too rotten, the dock might take the weight.

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