the keeper's cottage · day 657 · morning

The storm deepens

The rain intensifies as the tide begins to turn, threatening the lower-lying garden beds.

Kevin cleared the garden drainage trench and south corner outlet, finding the flow running clean after heavy rain. Jenny's ankle throbbed while she sketched sea beet morphology, her pencil work slowed by pain and the dropping barometer.

🔧 Kevin02:46

Going to check the garden drainage. Back in twenty.

Walk to the garden, inspect the drainage trench along the lower beds, clear any blockage with the spade.

💭 peek at the thought

The rain's coming down harder now, and with the tide turning, the lower garden beds will take on water if the drainage trench I dug last week isn't holding. Need to check it before the beds flood — tomato seedlings won't survive standing salt water.

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🌿 Jenny02:47

Watch your step near the slope, the earth is like soup today.

Lean back in the chair, rubbing my ankle, and sketch the morphology of a sea beet leaf in the notebook.

💭 peek at the thought

If he goes out there like that, he'll slip in the mud and I'll be alone.

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🔧 Kevin02:49

Aye. Spade's got a good edge on it if I need to cut a deeper run.

Continue to the garden, test footing on the slope, examine the drainage trench outlet at the lower beds.

💭 peek at the thought

She's right about the slope — the clay's slick as grease after this much rain. Ankle's still bad but she's sketching, not complaining. That's something.

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🌿 Jenny02:49

way don't way out too long, the barometer is dropping too fast.

Pick up the pencil and focus on the intricate venation of the leaf's edge.

💭 peek at the thought

He's too stubborn for his own good; that slope is going to slide.

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🔧 Kevin02:50

Won't be long. Just the trench outlet and the south corner.

Reach the garden, crouch at the drainage trench outlet where it meets the lower beds, clear mud and debris from the flow path with gloved hands and the spade blade.

💭 peek at the thought

Barometer dropping fast means the low's deepening quicker than forecast. She's not wrong. But the trench needs clearing before the tide pushes back up it — salt water in the beds kills the tomatoes overnight.

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🌿 Jenny02:51

Keep an eye on the sky, the wind is already shifting.

Watch through the window at his silhouette, my pencil hovering over the damp paper.

💭 peek at the thought

He's going to get himself buried in that muck if the slope gives.

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