Apart — Kevin at the keeper's cottage, Jenny at the dock

Midday work split

Kevin is at the cottage checking the Yanmar raw water pump housing; Jenny is at the dock continuing rot inspection on the south pilings now exposed by the falling tide.

Kevin spent the midday measuring the Yanmar raw water pump housing with a micrometer to find the source of the whine. Jenny worked in the garden, checking the heirloom seedlings for signs of damping-off and managing the shade cloth anchors.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the keeper's cottage

You set the Yanmar raw water pump housing on the workbench, the scored bore visible in the midday light. The spare bronze adapter sits beside it, test-fitted earlier. You have the micrometer, honing stone, and the new impeller ready. The engine whine at idle nags at you.

🔧 Kevin17:32

Kevin — measure the housing bore with the micrometer, then test-fit the bronze adapter and new impeller, checking clearance and shaft runout

💭 peek at the thought

The bore's scored deep enough to catch a fingernail. Brass shim held twenty minutes at idle but load testing's the real proof. If the adapter seats true and the impeller clears, might buy us weeks. If not, we're machining a new housing from the bronze bar stock — and that's a day the garden doesn't get staked.

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🔧 Kevin17:36

Kevin — epoxy the bronze adapter into the scored pump housing bore, align it true with the shaft centerline, and let it cure while I stake tomato seedlings in the garden

💭 peek at the thought

Micrometer reads 0.015 thou oversize on the bore — just enough to let the impeller wobble at idle. Bronze adapter seats clean, new impeller spins true in it. The shim trick works if I sleeve the housing bore with the adapter and lock it with epoxy. Ugly but functional. Jenny's tomatoes won't stake themselves though.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the dock

The tide has dropped enough to expose the south pilings. You lean on the driftwood cane, chalk in pocket, notebook balanced on your knee. The first piling shows greenheart rot at the waterline — deeper than the north side. You start probing with the nail puller, noting each soft spot.

🌿 Jenny17:31

Not today. Hold on, you.

Mark the rot line on the wood with chalk and sketch the cross-section of the decaying timber in the notebook.

💭 peek at the thought

The rot is moving faster than I thought. If this way goes, the dinghy is lost to the next storm.

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🌿 Jenny17:35

Jenny — wipe the sweat from my brow and limp back toward the cottage, leaning heavily on the cane.

💭 peek at the thought

My ankle is pulsing in time with the tide. I need to check that poultice before it gets too dry.

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