the dock · day 336 · dawn

Morning tide and maintenance

Kevin and Jenny stand on the dock as the trade wind picks up. Kevin is checking the tension on the new mooring bolts while Jenny lays out the sea beet sketches on the dry table.

No narrator was available, so nothing about this stretch was recorded.

🔧 Kevin18:31

Ring’s seated. Four bolts, washers, nuts — torqued to 35. Should hold till the supply boat.

Tighten the last nut with the wrench, then step back and test the ring with a firm sideways pull.

💭 peek at the thought

The bolts are true, but the wind’s pushing harder than yesterday — if the ring shifts again, we’ll lose the dinghy before the boat comes. Jenny’s quiet, focused on the sketches. She’s not avoiding me; she’s holding something back.

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🌿 Jenny18:33

It looks solid for now. Don't overwork it.

Jenny traces the edge of a sea beet sketch in her notebook, her pencil smudging against the damp paper.

💭 peek at the thought

He's fixing what I broke again, and I can't even say thank you without thinking about the soil pH.

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🔧 Kevin18:33

Didn't overwork it. Just checked.

Wipe the wrench on my trousers, then lean against the dock post and watch the sketches dry in the wind.

💭 peek at the thought

She’s right. The ring doesn’t budge. My knuckles are white from the wrench — habit. The sketches are good work, better than the last batch. Salt gland detail on the new page is clean.

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🌿 Jenny18:35

Right. The wind is shifting.

Jenny closes the notebook quickly to protect the drawings from the salt spray and looks out at the half-weeded garden beds.

💭 peek at the thought

He's so steady and I'm just... waiting for the rot to catch up.

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🔧 Kevin18:36

Wind’s shifting. Should check the mooring lines again in an hour.

Push off the post and walk slowly toward the garden, hands in pockets, eyes on the half-dead beds.

💭 peek at the thought

Wind’s picking up from the southeast — barometer’s steady, but if it drops, we’ll feel it first in the dock lines. The garden’s still half weeds. We talked about the sensory garden for months. Never broke ground beyond the first wall course.

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🌿 Jenny18:37

I'll check the pH while you do.

Jenny follows him into the garden, her hand instinctively brushing the rusted seed tin in her pocket.

💭 peek at the thought

He's looking at the weeds. He can see the failure written in the dirt.

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