Apart — Kevin at the garden, Jenny at the woods

Midday work divides

Kevin remains at the garden to continue pointing the wall gap; Jenny heads into the woods to gather firewood and check the north ridge seedling trays.

Kevin pointed the vertical joints on the south return and laid two more courses of stone, advancing the garden wall closure. Jenny inspected the seedling trays at cairn three, found damping-off in lettuce and pepper cells, bagged the affected seedlings for burning, then moved toward the fallen spruce to gather kindling.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the garden

You mix a fresh bucket of lime mortar, the sand and lime heavy in the trough. The south return stones are bedded; now you work the pointing iron into the vertical joints, packing mortar deep between the faces. The wind gusts through the palms, drying the mix faster than you'd like. You mist the joints with the spray bottle to keep them workable.

🔧 Kevin12:26

Kevin — point the vertical joints on the south return with the pointing iron, misting joints to keep mortar workable.

💭 peek at the thought

Mortar's setting fast in this wind. Need to work the verticals before the bedding course skins over. Good mix though — lime heavy, sand clean. Wall'll breathe right.

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🔧 Kevin12:30

Kevin — lay the next two courses of stone on the south return, bedding each in fresh mortar and checking level and plumb.

💭 peek at the thought

Verticals are filled and struck. Joint's tight. Now the upper lifts — two more courses to close the gap proper. Mortar's still plastic enough.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the woods

You shoulder the driftwood cane and follow the path toward the north ridge, the wind loud in the canopy. The seedling trays sit near cairn three, sheltered under the shade cloth you battened last week. You need to check the damping-off in the pepper and lettuce cells, and gather a few armfuls of dry kindling from the fallen spruce on the way back.

🌿 Jenny12:24

Jenny — walk to cairn three and inspect the seedling trays.

💭 peek at the thought

If the fungal fuzz has jumped to the tomato cells, I'm burning the whole tray. I can't risk the heirloom stock.

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🌿 Jenny12:28

Jenny — bag the affected lettuce seedlings for burning and move toward the fallen spruce to gather kindling.

💭 peek at the thought

Just two more lettuce cells gone. It's slow, but it's persistent. The tomatoes are holding, thank god.

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