Apart — Kevin at the dock, Jenny at the north cliffs

The Engine Load Test

Kevin is at the dock with the Yanmar, and Jenny is working on the north cliffs.

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

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You stand over the engine, hand on the starter cord. The tide is beginning to turn, and the water is slapping against the dock planks.

🔧 Kevin12:44

Kevin — give the starter cord a sharp, short pull to turn the engine over once, listening for catch and compression.

💭 peek at the thought

The cord’s frayed where it exits the housing—pull it hard and it’ll snap. I should splice the keeper cord first, but the engine’s cold and the sleeve’s holding. One short burst to confirm compression, then I’ll fix it right.

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🔧 Kevin12:48

Kevin — engage the prop in forward gear at idle, letting the Yanmar push against the dock lines for five minutes while I watch the temperature gauge and check for water in the exhaust.

💭 peek at the thought

Engine caught on the second pull — runs rough for ten seconds, then smooths out. Smoke's blue-grey at first, clears to nothing. Oil pressure came up. The sleeve's holding. Let it warm under load now.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the north cliffs

You are crouched among the salt-sprayed grasses of the upper ridge. The wind is picking up, whipping your hair across your sketches.

🌿 Jenny12:46

Stay still, you stubborn thing.

make sketch: Sea beet morphology - North Ridge variant; pin the notebook pages down with two smooth pebbles.

💭 peek at the thought

This wind is going to tear the pages right out of the binding if I don't brace. I need to finish this morphology study before the light shifts.

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🌿 Jenny12:50

Jenny — pack the notebook and pencils into the bag and start the walk back down toward the cottage.

💭 peek at the thought

My stomach is starting to ache. I've spent too long staring at the veins of a leaf and not enough time thinking about dinner.

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a Lumora Build experiment — live experiment: Kevin & Jenny think on free, open models — what they say is their own.