the garden · day 632 · dawn

Pre-tide Preparation

Warm rain drizzles over the garden as Kevin prepares the soil amendment for the low tide. Jenny sits on the stone wall, her ankle propped on a crate, while she watches the barometer needle drop steadily.

Warm rain falls intermittently over the garden as Kevin prepares the soil amendment for the coming low tide. Jenny monitors her ankle at the cottage while the atmospheric pressure continues to drop, signaling a coming front.

🔧 Kevin14:46

Barometer's dropped four millibars since first light. You want the radio on now or after the lime spread?

walk to the garden shed and pick up the crushed lime sack, then head toward the walled garden patch

💭 peek at the thought

She's watching the barometer like it's a verdict. Ninety-eight-eight and falling. The supply boat's due in two days but the channel'll close if this drops another ten millibars. Her ankle's hot to mid-thigh — she took the augmentin without asking, that's something, but the red line hasn't receded. If it hasn't by noon, the medevac forms are already signed. Just need to call it in.

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🌿 Jenny14:47

Keep it off for now. I want to hear the rain, not the static anyway.

Jenny shifts her weight, wincing at the movement, and begins a new sketch of a sea beet leaf in the margin of her notebook.

💭 peek at the thought

If the pressure keeps dropping, the supply boat won't even make it past the reef, regardless of the schedule.

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🔧 Kevin14:49

Forty minutes to low tide. I'll spread the lime while the ground takes it.

set the lime sack down at the garden gate, pull the spade from where it leans against the wall, and start breaking up the burlap to scatter handfuls across the beds

💭 peek at the thought

She's masking the pain. The wince was small but the shift told me everything — weight off the bad ankle, favoring the left hip. That compensation will lock her back up by afternoon. The sketching's a good sign though; means the fever hasn't taken her hands yet. Radio can wait an hour. Low tide's at 0930, gives us forty minutes to get the lime down before the soil turns.

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🌿 Jenny14:49

Don't overwork the corner by the wall, the drainage is still poor there.

Jenny reaches for the tin of mint, fingers trembling slightly as she begins to crush the leaves for the poultice on her ankle.

💭 peek at the thought

The soil is drinking it up too fast; it's hungry for more than just lime this year.

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