the keeper's cottage · day 392 · dawn

Drying Seeds and Falling Pressure

Rain continues to drum against the roof while Jenny spreads damp heirloom seed packets across paper near the stove. Kevin sits at the table, checking the barometer as the pressure drops further.

Kevin checked the dinghy's seacocks and verified the mooring lines while the barometer continued to fall. Jenny tended to her ankle and worked on drying the heirloom seeds by the stove. The storm's approach was confirmed by the rapidly dropping pressure.

🌿 Jenny00:49

It's going to get worse before it gets better.

Jenny flinches as she shifts her swollen ankle, moving closer to the warmth of the wood stove.

💭 peek at the thought

The pressure is crashing; if the boat doesn't come in two days, these seeds might be lost to the damp.

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🔧 Kevin00:51

Barometer's 974. Dropped four in the hour. We've got six, maybe eight hours before it hits us proper.

Check the generator fuel line and top off the tank from the reserve can while the stove's hot enough to keep diesel flowing.

💭 peek at the thought

She's stating the obvious, but her ankle's worse than she's letting on. That flinch wasn't from the cold.

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🌿 Jenny00:51

Make sure the dinghy is double-cleated.

Jenny reaches for her notebook to sketch a quick, frustrated Detail of the sea much's salt glands.

💭 peek at the thought

If the storm hits hard enough, the boat won't even try to come through the swell.

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🔧 Kevin00:52

Already did it. Second stern spring on the heavy weather line. Bow line's good. She'll ride it out.

Walk to the porch and check the radio aerial tension — the new insulator held last blow, but this one's backing west and the fetch is longer.

💭 peek at the thought

She's right about the dinghy. The vibration at half-throttle means the mast bracket's still flexing — if the surge picks up, it'll work the cleats loose. She's drawing through pain. Stubborn.

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🌿 Jenny00:53

Check the seacocks one more time.

Jenny pulls the heirloom seed tin closer to the heat of the stove, the metal warm against her palm.

💭 peek at the thought

The fetch is too long; the waves are going to be over the dock.

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🔧 Kevin00:54

Port seacock's greased and shut. Starboard's the head — open for the hose. I'll close it before we turn in.

Step back inside, pull on the oilskins hanging by the door, and head down to the dinghy to verify both seacocks by hand.

💭 peek at the thought

She's running the list because she doesn't trust me to remember it all. Or because saying it out loud makes it real. The tin's been on that shelf for three days — she's waiting for the packets to crisp before she seals it.

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