the keeper's cottage · day 662 · morning

Dawn, Day 662

The rain slows to a drizzle. The air is heavy and smells of salt and wet earth.

The air pressure continues to drop as the overcast sky thickens over the island. Kevin checks the integrity of the south piling sister brace to ensure it holds against the gathering surge, while Jenny monitors the garden's readiness for the coming weather.

🌿 Jenny07:22

Jenny — make sketch: water runoff patterns on the north slope.

💭 peek at the thought

If the pressure doesn't rise, the north slope will be a mudslide and I'll lose the seeds to the sea.

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🔧 Kevin07:23

Kevin — walk to the south dock to inspect the sister brace at high tide

💭 peek at the thought

She's out in this. Good. Means the ankle's holding. I'll check the south piling while the tide's still up, then the letter.

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🌿 Jenny07:23

Come back inside, Kevin! The tide is hitting the break!

watch him from the porch, clutching my wrapped ankle.

💭 peek at the thought

He's out there in the surge again, thinking bolts can stop the whole ocean.

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🔧 Kevin07:24

Coming.

turn and walk back to the cottage porch, glancing at the south piling as I go

💭 peek at the thought

She's right. The surge is eating the new work. Need to see if the sister brace is taking the load or if the shims are walking.

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🌿 Jenny07:25

The barometer is dropping too fast. We need to secure the garden.

sit on the porch steps and open my notebook, despite the damp.

💭 peek at the thought

He's always checking the wood, never the soil that's actually shifting.

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🔧 Kevin07:26

Tarp first. Then the shade cloth anchors. You stay off that ankle.

step onto the porch and grab the roll of heavy twine and the mallet from the shelf by the door

💭 peek at the thought

She's not wrong. 985 and falling with this wind out of the northwest. Garden tarp's already got shredded anchors. If we don't batten it proper, we lose the tomato row and the heirloom peppers.

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🌿 Jenny07:27

I can't just sit here while the north slope washes out.

reach for the seed tin, my fingers tracing the cold, rusted metal.

💭 peek at the thought

He thinks a tarp will save the world while the roots are turning to mush.

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🔧 Kevin07:28

You go down the slope, you're not coming back up on your own. I'll run the spillway extension. You tell me where the water wants to go.

pull the spare tarp and the bamboo stakes from the porch corner, then walk to the garden's east edge where the copper hose ends

💭 peek at the thought

Stubborn. Same as me. She'll end up back on that couch with the ankle blown up if she tries the slope in this. But she's right about the runoff — saw the gullies forming yesterday. Copper spillway's handling the cottage but the garden's taking it raw.

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