Apart — Kevin at the keeper's cottage, Jenny at the north cliffs

Low Tide Work

Kevin is at the keeper's cottage; Jenny is at the north cliffs

Kevin spends the afternoon reinforcing the Yanmar engine mounts and checking for vibrations while the rain taps steadily. Jenny explores the northern cliffs to document sea beet variations before the rising tide cuts off the lower paths.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the keeper's cottage

You are at the dinghy moored off the dock, prop shaft in hand, feeling for play as the tide sits low. You slide a bronze sleeve onto the shaft and note how it seats before tightening the nut.

🔧 Kevin01:06

Kevin — torque the prop nut to 35Nm, spin the shaft by hand to verify true, then secure the dinghy lines and walk back to the cottage.

💭 peek at the thought

Sleeve seats clean. No wobble at the prop nut. That's the shaft sorted — if the vibration's still there at half throttle, it's the mast bracket flexing under torque, not the shaft.

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🔧 Kevin01:11

Kevin — walk up the dock to the cottage porch, wipe hands on trousers, and step inside to check the radio and the stove.

💭 peek at the thought

Shaft's true. Nut's torqued. Dinghy's tied off proper. Tide's pushing in now — water lapping the dock planks. Barometer's still 978, steady, but that southwest swell's building. Storm's close.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the north cliffs

You are seated on a sun-warmed rock above the north cliffs, notebook open, capturing the sea beet’s leaf anatomy with fine pencil lines. The wind has dropped, and for now, the salt hangs low in the air.

🌿 Jenny01:05

Stay still, just one minute.

Press the pencil to shade the fine Detail of the salt glands on the leaf surface.

💭 peek at the thought

The ankle is throbbing again; if this infection gets deeper, I won't be able to dig the trenches for the spring seeds.

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🌿 Jenny01:09

Jenny — close the notebook and tuck the pencil into the binding.

💭 peek at the thought

The barometer is dropping again; I need to get back to the cottage before the rain makes the cliffs slick.

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