Apart — Kevin at the dock, Jenny at the garden

Midday radio contact and meal

Kevin is at the dock securing the dinghy after the Yanmar test; Jenny is at the garden examining the southwest corner salt damage.

No narrator was available, so nothing about this stretch was recorded.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You double the stern spring around the mooring ring, checking the chafing guard you replaced. The dinghy sits low, engine tilted up. You test the bow line slack for swell movement, then climb the ladder to the cottage porch, radio clipped to your belt.

🔧 Kevin09:44

Kevin — walk up to the cottage porch and head toward the north ridge garden to check the intercept trench and foundation

💭 peek at the thought

Engine held. Sleeve held. Mast bracket's skew didn't telegraph to the shaft. Fuel burn clean. Dinghy's as ready as it'll get. Now the north trench — king tide would've flushed the intercept drain if it's working. Need eyes on it before the next swell pushes in.

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🔧 Kevin09:54

Kevin — crouch at the northeast foundation trench, inspect the bitumen membrane overlaps and the shifted cedar stakes, test the soil plug from the last auger hole for moisture

💭 peek at the thought

Trench is taking water. Clay's weeping at the northeast corner same as last month, but the bitumen membrane's holding — no active seepage into the crawlspace. Cedar stakes shifted again though. Three of them listing toward the garden beds. The drainage bed's doing its job but the slope above keeps feeding it. Need to decide: drive deeper stakes, or let the tarp and cribbing take the weight until the soil settles proper.

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🔧 Kevin10:00

Kevin — walk back to the cottage, pull the notebook from the shelf, write the north trench coordinates and bearing for Tom's 0300 contact, then head to the dock to fetch greenheart offcuts for stake sisters

💭 peek at the thought

Membrane's sound. Stakes shifted because the clay's still moving — not failure, just creep. Three listing stakes won't hold the tarp edge if a southeaster hits. Could drive new ones deeper past the slip plane, or sister the existing with greenheart offcuts. Greenheart's down at the dock. Leg's stiff from the ladder work. Radio check with Tom at 0300 — need coordinates written and ready. Jenny's at the garden. She'll want the stake decision before she beds the next row.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the garden

You crouch beside the southwest tomato row, turning a yellowed leaf. Salt crystals glitter on the soil surface. The new garden wall holds, but water seeps through its base. You reach for the lime sack, calculating how much to carry up from the shed.

🌿 Jenny09:43

Jenny — stand up slowly, wincing as my ankle shifts, and walk toward the shed to retrieve the lime.

💭 peek at the thought

The pH is dropping too fast. If I don't stabilize this patch now, grandmother's seeds will rot before they even sprout.

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🌿 Jenny09:53

Jenny — carry lime sack to southwest corner, dump half on soil, mix with hands while watching the crystals dissolve.

💭 peek at the thought

The lime needs to be worked into the soil before the next rain, but the ankle's protest is getting worse. I should have called Kevin for help. Instead I'm alone with my failures.

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🌿 Jenny09:59

Jenny — reach for soil auger, begin probing behind the tomato row where the wall meets the trench.

💭 peek at the thought

The soil's still too wet from yesterday's storm. I need to check the drainage channel again—it's cutting deeper than yesterday, too deep for the wall's foundation.

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