the keeper's cottage · day 65 · morning

The morning continues

Kevin and Jenny stand by the kitchen table as the sun rises higher. The trade wind remains steady against the cottage walls.

Kevin continues the seacock inspection while Jenny examines the succulent samples gathered from the cliffs. The humidity remains low enough to keep the epoxy on the dinghy transom stable for now.

🔧 Kevin14:09

Humidity's breaking. Transom's next if it holds under seventy.

wipe hands on a rag, move to the porch to check the hygrometer and the dinghy under the plastic sheeting

💭 peek at the thought

The light's shifting on the table — Jenny's sketches catching it. She's been at the sea beet morphology all morning, precise as a watchmaker. I should've glassed the transom yesterday but the humidity held. Today it's dropping. Can feel it in the air.

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🌿 Jenny14:11

Keep an eye on the clouds while you check.

Pick up the pencil and finish the cross-section of the succulent's leaf structure.

💭 peek at the thought

If the humidity drops, I can finally get that glass pat laid down properly, or it'll just bubble forever.

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🔧 Kevin14:11

Glass first. Sky second.

step onto the porch, pull back the plastic sheeting on the dinghy transom, press palm to the epoxy joint testing tack, then glance at the hygrometer pinned by the door

💭 peek at the thought

She's not wrong. Cloud's thickening west — not weather yet, but building. Trade wind steady means it'll push through fast if it turns.

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🌿 Jenny14:13

Don't pull it too hard, it's still tacky.

Sketch the salt gland distribution on the underside of the sea beet in the notebook.

💭 peek at the thought

He's right about the order, but the air feels heavy, like the clouds are holding their breath.

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🔧 Kevin14:21

Didn't pull. Just lifted.

peel the sheeting back slow, press fingertips to the scarf joint — still tacky, fingerprint-deep — then check the hygrometer: sixty-eight percent

💭 peek at the thought

She heard the plastic tear from inside. Good ears. The joint's been covered three days — epoxy should've kicked by now if the humidity ever dropped. Hasn't.

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🌿 Jenny14:27

Good. That's workable. Let's get the mat laid before the afternoon heat hits.

Cut the fiberglass patch to size for the transom scarf joint.

💭 peek at the thought

Sixty-eight percent and still tacky means I have time to work the fiberglass properly, but that epoxy's not going to wait forever.

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