the garden · day 858 · dawn

The Humidity Stalls

The heavy air sits motionless over the garden as the humidity clings to the damp earth. Jenny sits on the stone wall, resting her wrapped ankle in gauze, while Kevin inspects the tension on the tarp against the coming rain.

The heavy humidity clings to the garden as the tide begins to pull away. Kevin works to haul heavy creek rocks to anchor the north corner of the tarp, anticipating the wind increase in the damp air. Jenny leans against the cool stone wall, wincing as she shifts her weight to manage the swollen ankle, sketching the sea-beet in her notebook before the grey light fades.

🔧 Kevin09:17

Tarp's loose on the north corner. Gonna need to re-batten it before the downpour hits.

Walk to the garden tarp's north anchor point and check the bamboo stakes where the wind's been creeping under.

💭 peek at the thought

The barometer's rising but the air's still heavy enough to make wood swell. That tarp won't hold if the humidity keeps pressing like this.

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🌿 Jenny09:17

The stakes are soft. Use the heavier rocks from the creek, or the wind will just Take them anyway.

Lean back against the cold stone, wincing as the weight shifts on my ankle, and watch him work with the twine.

💭 peek at the thought

If those stakes pull out, the whole bed goes under the mud, and I can't lose grandmother's seeds.

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🔧 Kevin09:18

Creek rocks it is.

Walk down to the creek bed and fill both arms with fist-sized stones, the heavy grey ones that don't crumble.

💭 peek at the thought

She's right. The bamboo's punky from weeks of damp. Creek rocks'll hold better than stakes in this clay anyway.

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🌿 Jenny09:19

Put them deep at the base. We need the weight to keep the soil from sliding again.

Reach for my notebook and start a rough sketch of the sea-beet morphology I saw yesterday before the light fails completely.

💭 peek at the thought

At least he's listening for once, but the ridge is still weeping like a broken pipe.

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🔧 Kevin09:21

Aye. Deep enough they won't roll when the ground gives.

Return to the garden and set each rock into a shallow trench at the tarp's edge, packing wet clay around the base until they bed firm.

💭 peek at the thought

She's thinking ahead to the slope. The garden wall held last time but the clay behind it's slick as grease now.

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🌿 Jenny09:21

It looks solid. I'll check the water tank seepage as soon as I can get my weight on this foot.

Close the notebook with a snap and attempt to stand up, leaning heavily on the stone wall for support.

💭 peek at the thought

He's being thorough. I can't let him do all the heavy lifting while I just sit here, even if my leg feels like it's pulsing in time with my heart.

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