Apart — Kevin at the dock, Jenny at the garden

Kevin checks the Yanmar vibration at the dock, Jenny tests garden soil

Kevin is at the dock preparing to test the Yanmar engine vibration, while Jenny remains in the garden to continue soil work

Kevin inspected the Yanmar prop shaft and sleeve, confirming alignment after re-epoxying and reinstalling the sleeve. Jenny tested the garden soil pH, finding it within the acceptable range for the lime beds. Both proceeded with their stated intentions without incident.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You are at the dock with the dinghy tied nearby, the Yanmar engine mounted and ready for testing. You have the dial indicator in hand, preparing to check vibration at half-throttle.

🔧 Kevin09:44

Kevin — clamp dial indicator to Yanmar prop hub, start engine, let warm at idle, record reading, advance to half-throttle, record reading, shut down

💭 peek at the thought

Dial indicator in hand, engine cold. Need baseline at idle first, then half-throttle. If the vibration's in the shaft, it'll show on the prop hub. If it's the bracket, the whole mount moves. Either way, the supply boat's due in two days and I'm not putting them alongside a dock with a shaky dinghy.

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🔧 Kevin09:48

Kevin — shut down engine, disconnect fuel line, remove prop nut and prop, slide off bronze sleeve, inspect shaft and sleeve bore for high spots, clean both with honing stone and solvent, reapply thin epoxy mix to shaft, press sleeve on straight, to

💭 peek at the thought

Idle: 0.02 mm wobble. Half-throttle: jumps to 0.18 mm peak-to-peak. Definitely the prop shaft—not the bracket, which barely twitches. The sleeve I pressed on last week must have seated unevenly. Need to pull it, check the shaft for burrs, and re-seat with fresh epoxy. If I don’t fix this now, the cutless bearing will chew itself out before the boat arrives.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the garden

You are back in the garden at the tomato row, holding a fresh pH test strip, ready to test the soil again after liming. The lime has been worked in, and you wait for it to settle before testing.

🌿 Jenny09:46

Come on, you stubborn dirt.

Press the test strip into the damp soil and wait for the color to shift.

💭 peek at the thought

If the pH doesn't budge, I'm just wasting Grandma's seeds.

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🌿 Jenny09:50

Jenny — hold the strip up to the light and compare the color to the chart on the kit.

💭 peek at the thought

It's moving up, but not fast enough.

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