Apart — Kevin at the dock, Jenny at the garden

Midday at the dock and garden

Kevin works on the dock mooring ring reinforcement while Jenny monitors the garden beds and barometer.

Kevin spent the afternoon inspecting the dock reinforcements under the warm rain, checking for further rot in the hardware. Jenny attempted to manage the garden seedlings, but the humidity and rain made the work difficult and frustrating.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You stand on the dock planks, tide rising around your boots. The mooring ring shifts under your weight. The workshop's longer 150mm stainless through-bolts and the steel doubler plate sit in a bucket beside you, along with the heavy wrench and mallet. Rain drums on the water.

🔧 Kevin09:52

Kevin — pick up the heavy wrench and the bucket with the doubler plate and through-bolts, move to the mooring ring mortise, and start cleaning salt and debris from the bolt holes with a wire brush.

💭 peek at the thought

Ring's still moving. Oak wedges split. Need the doubler plate and through-bolts before the supply boat — if it comes in seven days. Tide's high, rain's warm. Good enough to work.

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🔧 Kevin09:56

Kevin — position the steel doubler plate over the mooring ring mortise, align the four bolt holes, and drive the 150mm stainless through-bolts through from the seaward side. Thread washers and nyloc nuts on the landward side.

💭 peek at the thought

Bolt holes cleared. Doubler plate fits the mortise face. Four 150mm through-bolts, washers, nyloc nuts. Rain's steady — epoxy would be better but the tub's near empty. Mechanical fasteners will hold if torqued right.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the garden

You stand at the garden's edge, the barometer in hand. The needle sits at 1037 hPa but the sky has darkened further west. The tarp holds. You check the seed trays — tomato and basil at true leaf, three pepper and four lettuce cells now showing damping-off. The poppy seed tin rests in your coat pocket.

🌿 Jenny09:51

Jenny — reach into my pocket for the seed tin, then walk to the highest point of the garden bed.

💭 peek at the thought

The pressure is holding, but the air feels heavy. If I don't plant now, I'll be making excuses for another week.

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🌿 Jenny09:55

Come on, Jenny. Just one.

Open the rusted tin, take out one poppy seed, and dig a small hole in the earth with my finger.

💭 peek at the thought

The soil is still damp, but it's firm enough. One seed won't break the world if it fails.

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