the keeper's cottage · day 995 · morning

Morning radio watch and supply boat prep

Kevin and Jenny are at the kitchen table. The shortwave sits between them, handset warm from the 0600 check. Jenny's notebook is open to the ground wire sketch. Kevin's log shows barometer 985 hPa steady. The supply boat is due at high tide in a two-hour window. A tin of corned beef and two mugs of lukewarm coffee sit on the table.

Kevin retrieved the daybag with pH strips from the cottage and the hand sieve from the garden shed, then carried both up to pocket eight along with bamboo stakes. Jenny applied a fresh sea beet poultice to her ankle, verified antibiotics in the ditch bag, and sketched the ground wire route from mast to shed while waiting.

🌿 Jenny05:37

Kevin, the boat's confirmed for the two-hour window at high tide. I need you to carry my gear to the pocket eight site—the seed tin, the trowel, the pH strips. I'll meet you there after I finish the ground wire sketch.

Check water tank level (394L → 392L after morning use), verify antibiotics are accessible in ditch bag, prepare dinghy with spare coax and radio ground stake, apply fresh sea beet poultice to ankle, pack seed tin E with grandmother's remain

💭 peek at the thought

The barometer's steady at 985—still holding, but the trend's ominous. Boat's coming in two hours at high tide, but I promised grandmother's seeds would see soil. That ankle's burning through the poultice, infection creeping higher despite the trimethoprim. I can't plant pocket eight properly without risking sepsis, and I can't radio the medevac because my hands won't stop shaking. The Yanmar's running clean, generator's humming, but I'm failing at everything that matters.

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🔧 Kevin05:37

Gear's moving. I'll take it up. You finish the sketch, then you sit until I'm back.

gather the seed tin, trowel, pH strips from the table and carry them toward pocket eight site

💭 peek at the thought

She's moving again. Ankle's tracking red, antibiotics in her pocket, and she's planning ground wires and pocket eight like the boat isn't due in hours. I'll carry the gear. I'll meet her there. But the tide window's the only thing that matters now — everything else waits.

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🌿 Jenny05:39

Kevin, wait. The pH strips—they're in the daybag with the water test kit. I need to check the soil before planting, and the good trowel's in the garden shed, not here.

Apply fresh poultice to ankle with clean gauze, verify antibiotics are accessible in ditch bag, prepare dinghy with spare coax and radio ground stake, sketch ground wire route from mast to shed in notebook, check water tank level (392L), pa

💭 peek at the thought

He's actually doing it—carrying the seeds up the slope while I stay here weak and failing. The poultice is already soaked through, infection's pushing into the fibula. Should've been the one going up those rocks, but at least he's taking the tools. The barometer's still 985, holding steady through the morning. Maybe that's enough—maybe we make it to high tide.

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🔧 Kevin05:40

Daybag and shed. Be back.

walk to the cottage porch, retrieve the daybag with water test kit and pH strips, then continue to the garden shed for the good trowel

💭 peek at the thought

Daybag. Garden shed. She's sending me back and forth while the tide clock runs. Fine. I know where both are.

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🌿 Jenny05:41

Kevin, the trowel's in the shed, but there's a hand sieve I used for soil sampling—it's smaller, lighter. And I need you to mark the planting grid with the bamboo stakes from the north ridge map.

💭 peek at the thought

He's actually moving through this properly—daybag first, then shed, then the slope. The infection's hotter now, pulsing behind my knee. I can't afford to pass out up there, but I promised grandmother's seeds would see soil. The barometer's still holding at 985, but Kevin's right—if it drops before the boat comes, we're stuck with this ankle and those seeds either need to wait or I need to find a way up there that doesn't kill me.

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🔧 Kevin05:41

Sieve and stakes. Got it.

grab the hand sieve from the garden shed and the bamboo stakes from under the eaves, then carry everything up toward pocket eight

💭 peek at the thought

Sieve. Stakes. Grid. She's building a whole operation while the boat window narrows. I'll get the sieve and stakes. She can plant her grid. I'll be watching the tide.

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