the garden · day 404 · midday

Rising Tide and Heavy Air

The tide is higher now, licking the dock pilings. The clouds thicken as the pressure drops.

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🔧 Kevin13:34

Kevin — walk to the dock and inspect the storm anchor warp and dinghy mooring lines

💭 peek at the thought

Tide's pushing hard against the pilings. Barometer's still falling. Boat's supposed to be here at 0600 — if the window holds. Need to check the dinghy's storm anchor warp one more time before dark.

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🌿 Jenny13:35

Kevin, check the tension on the boat. The wind is coming up.

Press a tomato seed into the damp earth and firm it down.

💭 peek at the thought

The rain is going to start again before I finish this row. My ankle is throbbing in time with the tide.

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🔧 Kevin13:36

On it.

walk down to the dock and check the dinghy's storm anchor warp tension and mooring lines

💭 peek at the thought

She's right. Wind's shifting northeast, gusting past the cottage corners. Dinghy's the only way out if the supply boat can't make the dock.

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🌿 Jenny13:36

Just make sure the lines aren't fouled.

Reach into the seed tin for the next handful of heirloom seeds.

💭 peek at the thought

If that boat drifts, I'm stuck here another month and I can't lose the supplies.

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🔧 Kevin13:37

Kevin — step onto the dinghy and run hands along both bow and stern lines, checking for chafe, fouling, or slack at the chocks

💭 peek at the thought

Lines were clean this morning. But tide's higher now, different angle on the chocks. Could've worked a bight under the bow eye.

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🌿 Jenny13:37

Watch the bow cleat specifically.

Wipe the mud off my hands onto my trousers.

💭 peek at the thought

The water is rising too fast today. If it surges, the seeds will just wash out anyway.

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