the keeper's cottage · day 159 · afternoon

A Quiet Stretch

Back at the cottage.

Kevin and Jenny ate a lunch of boiled limpets and sea beet under the overcast afternoon. Kevin inspected the liferaft canister mounted on the porch while Jenny worked on sketching sea beet morphology in her notebook. The barometer remains steady as the heat stays high.

🌿 Jenny18:37

Jenny — plate the boiled limpets and sea beet and sit at the kitchen table to eat.

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The wayets are rubbery and my stomach is growling; I need to eat before I lose the light for the sea beet sketches.

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🔧 Kevin18:37

Kevin — eat the limpets and sea beet at the kitchen table

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Quiet lunch. Good quiet. The limpets are rubbery but the sea beet cuts through it. She's eating steady. That's something.

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🌿 Jenny18:39

Jenny — pick up a limpet with my fork and chew slowly, staring out the window at the overcast sky.

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💭 peek at the thought

He's eating so quietly, but I can hear the scrape of his fork against the cast-iron skillet.

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🔧 Kevin18:39

Barometer's steady. 997.

finish the limpets and wipe the plate with a finger, collecting the last of the sea beet juice

💭 peek at the thought

She's watching the sky. Reading it better than the barometer. Weather's holding for now but that overcast's got weight to it.

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🌿 Jenny18:41

Good for the boat, I think.

Set my fork down and reach for my notebook, wanting to finish the salt gland deconstruction on the sea beet.

💭 peek at the thought

It's rising, then, but the air still feels heavy like it's holding its breath.

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🔧 Kevin18:41

Aye. Engine's solid. Transom held.

push back from the table and carry the plates to the sink, running a little tank water over them

💭 peek at the thought

She's thinking ahead. Supply boat in five days. Dinghy's ready if the Yanmar holds. She's already mapping the exit in her head — same as me.

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🌿 Jenny18:43

I'm glad the epoxy held.

Finish the last of the sea way and open the notebook to a fresh page, way to sketch the morphology of the salt glands.

💭 peek at the thought

If the engine is solid, I can actually reach the north ridge properly before the weather turns.

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🔧 Kevin18:45

Kevin — dry hands on the towel, glance at the liferaft canister mounted by the porch door, then step out onto the porch to pull it down for inspection

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Epoxy held. Transom held. She's glad. I'm glad. We don't say the rest — that we're both counting what's held and what hasn't.

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