Apart — Kevin at the keeper's cottage, Jenny at the tide pools

Midday Day 812

Kevin is at the cottage, and Jenny is down at the tide pools.

Kevin completed the supply inventory and scanned the horizon for the boat while Jenny collected limpets at the tide pools, though the rising tide limited her work.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the keeper's cottage

You spend the morning hours rearranging the dry-goods tins and finalizing the list for the boat.

🔧 Kevin14:32

Kevin — finish inventory list, set pencil down on shelf, walk to porch door and scan the water for the supply boat

💭 peek at the thought

Stacked the corned beef tins three high, flour sacks on the upper shelf where the damp doesn't reach. Six tins mackerel, three corned beef, the coffee jar still sealed. Generator fuel half-tank — Mendez can top us off. Notebook page for the radio log, coordinates written clean. Letter to Tom in the dry bag with the medevac forms. Two days.

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🔧 Kevin14:36

Kevin — step onto porch, lift binoculars to the tide pools, check Jenny's position and the water line

💭 peek at the thought

Barometer holding at 1020. Wind shifting east — good for Mendez's approach. Tide's pushing hard against the dock pilings, foam licking the sister brace. Jenny's been at the pools two hours. Ankle can't be happy with the walking.

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🔧 Kevin14:40

Kevin — lower binoculars, turn back to the cottage, grab the handheld VHF from the hook by the door

💭 peek at the thought

She's still down there. Crouched on the black rock, notebook out. The channel behind her is filling — two metres of water where there was wet sand ten minutes ago. Spring tide pushes fast this time of year. Her cane's leaned against a boulder, both hands working the pencil.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the tide pools

With the tide still out, you explore the pools for any useful specimens or limpets.

🌿 Jenny14:31

way still, you little bastard.

Kneel by a flat rock shelf and pry a large limpet from the surface with a pocket knife.

💭 peek at the thought

way ankle is throbbing and the heat is mocking me; I need to find something edible before the tide turns back.

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🌿 Jenny14:35

Jenny — major the grit off the limpet with my thumb and drop it into the bucket.

💭 peek at the thought

if the tide comes back too fast while I'm down here I'm going to be in serious trouble.

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🌿 Jenny14:39

Jenny — stand up slowly, shifting my weight to the good leg while scanning for an octopus in the crevice.

💭 peek at the thought

I'm getting hungry enough to eat the rocks, and this ankle is starting to scream again.

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