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

The storm lulls

The rain turns to a steady drizzle as the tide begins to turn back.

The air is thick and humid, holding the 26°C heat as the pressure drops steadily. The barometer continues its descent to 978 hPa, signaling a shift in the wet season weather. At the dock, the epoxy on the transom repair remains tacky and stubborn, refusing to set properly in the high humidity and falling temperature.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You wipe the grit from your eyes and inspect the mooring lines. The water is churning under the pilings.

🔧 Kevin08:42

Kevin — check the dinghy's stern line chafe point at the ring, then walk back to the cottage for the crowbar and cedar shims to wedge the mooring ring tight.

💭 peek at the thought

Swell's picking up from the southwest. Barometer's been falling two days. If the supply boat comes in five days like they said, it'll be fighting this chop. Mooring ring's still loose in its mortise — noticed it last week, never got round to wedging it proper.

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🔧 Kevin08:46

Kevin — walk to the radio mast base, climb up to the bracket with the spare porcelain insulator and self-amalgamating tape, fit and seal it, then test the shortwave receive on the trust frequency.

💭 peek at the thought

Ring's wedged solid now. Cedar shims drove in clean, crowbar gave the leverage. Dinghy's stern line runs fair through the chock, chafe guard holding. Tide's still low but the swell's pushing water up under the pilings — can hear it sucking at the planks. Two rotten ones I marked last month. Haven't replaced them. Jenny's at the cottage with the seedlings and the chick. Should check the radio aerial while I'm up this end — insulator's still shattered, spare porcelain's in my pocket.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the keeper's cottage

You reach for the tinned goods. The sound of the rain on the roof fills the small room.

🌿 Jenny08:44

Jenny — reach for a tin of corned beef and set it on the counter.

💭 peek at the thought

My stomach isn't growling, but the air feels hollow. I need something with substance if I'm going to move today.

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🌿 Jenny08:48

Jenny — walk over to the seedling trays on the kitchen table and inspect the soil for damping-off.

💭 peek at the thought

I can't just sit here staring at the rain. If I don't check those trays now, the humidity will finish them off.

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