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

Midday at the cottage and garden

Kevin is at the keeper's cottage monitoring the Yanmar and staging stakes; Jenny is at the garden finishing test pits and treating her ankle.

Kevin finishes the morning work by staking the garden beds and testing the Yanmar's vibration, noting the fix holds steady. Jenny continues her survey of the soil, preparing to dig test pits to map the acidity while managing the throbbing in her ankle as the heat begins to rise.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the keeper's cottage

You stand on the porch with the Yanmar's exhaust warm against your legs, the engine purring at 1800 RPM under the generator load. The greenheart stakes lean against the railing, drying in the overcast breeze. You have the spade ready for when the soil firms enough to drive them.

🔧 Kevin15:40

Kevin — wipe hands on thighs, check the barometer again, then walk down to the garden with the spade over my shoulder.

💭 peek at the thought

Engine note's clean. No shake at the mounts. Oil pressure holding. Ground's still slick — another hour, maybe two, before I can drive stakes without wallowing the holes. Jenny's at the garden. She'll want the radio at 1800.

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🔧 Kevin15:44

Kevin — drive the first stake at the northeast corner of the cottage bed, mallet rhythm steady, watching the grain for splitting.

💭 peek at the thought

Soil's firmed some at the cottage beds — top inch crumbles clean off the spade. Good enough. Greenheart's dense; it'll drive straight if I don't hesitate.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the garden

You kneel in the mud at pocket seven, the last pH strip used, your notebook full of red wax marks. The sea beet poultice steams against your ankle, held by gauze and willow twine. The coconut crab's tracks cross the bed where you just worked — fresh claw marks in the amended soil.

🌿 Jenny15:43

Jenny — use pocket knife to carve small X marks in amended soil at crab entry/exit points, then collect soil sample from undamaged section near freshwater seep

💭 peek at the thought

Six inches of workable soil and a coconut crab just burrowed through it like it's nothing. The poultice is cooling but the infection's still spreading under my skin. I need to mark where the crab crossed before I lose that data.

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🌿 Jenny15:47

Jenny — walk to cottage, retrieve island map from shelf, use red wax to mark new slump points on north ridge section, then place map in waterproof case

💭 peek at the thought

The sample's in a ziplock from the supply boat, labeled with my pen. Now I need to mark the weep zone on the ridge map before the tide shifts again.

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