Midday dock and garden work
Kevin is at the dock cutting and fitting a second greenheart sister plank for the north piling; Jenny is in the garden checking seedling trays and re-staking tomato plants against the rising wind.
Kevin finishes the structural repairs on the dock, ensuring the mooring rings are secure for the upcoming supply boat arrival. He returns to the cottage to check in via the shortwave radio, finding only static and logging the silence. Jenny spends the midday in the garden, tending to the heirloom seedlings and de-briding her ankle while monitoring the mold in the seed tin.
You crouch in the salt spray, mallet in hand, driving the tapered greenheart shim under the new sister plank at the north piling base. The tide laps at your boots, higher than the charts said. Each blow seats the timber tighter. You check the through-bolt alignment — four 150mm stainless, holes pre-drilled. The piling groans as the swell hits.
Kevin — drive the last two through-bolts home with the heavy wrench, check torque by feel, then stand and wipe salt from my eyes. Walk back to the cottage for water and the radio check-in.
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Kevin — walk up the path to the cottage, pour a mug from the tank, and sit at the shortwave. Power on. Tune to the trust frequency. Log whatever comes through.
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Kevin — log the silence in the radio notebook — date, time, frequency, conditions, no contact. Set the radio to scan. Walk to the garden to find Jenny.
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You move down the garden rows, ankle propped on the wheelbarrow, checking each tomato stake. The wind has shifted west, gusting through the shade cloth. Three basil plants are gone, chewed to the nub. You re-tie the tomato leaders with soft twine, gentle on the salt-stressed stems, and peer into the seed trays — damping-off fuzz creeps along two more lettuce cells.
Not today, please not today.
pull the infected lettuce seedlings and toss them into the waste bucket.
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Jenny — walk back to the cottage to get the seed tin from the shelf.
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Jenny — open the seed tin and check for new mold.
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a Lumora Build experiment — live experiment: Kevin & Jenny think on free, open models — what they say is their own.