the tide pools · day 82 · morning

The Receding Tide

The falling tide has left the pools teeming with limpets and small crabs. The heavy air suggests a storm may break before the boat arrives.

Kevin successfully pried the mooring ring from its mortise and cleaned the salt-crusted bolts, preparing the dinghy for a proper through-bolt installation. Jenny attempted to examine the shortwave radio's cracked insulator housing but fumbled the inspection, dropping the radio and worsening the crack in the housing.

🌿 Jenny13:31

I need to get the way down before the wind shifts.

Walk back to the cottage and secure the plastic tarp over the seed tin.

💭 peek at the thought

The barometer is dropping too fast; if the rain hits now, the sea beet sketches will be ruined to pulp.

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🔧 Kevin13:32

Tide turns in twenty minutes. I'll meet you at the cottage after I check the mooring ring.

walk to the dock and inspect the dinghy's mooring ring in its mortise

💭 peek at the thought

She's moving with purpose. The tarp, the seed tin — she's securing what matters before the weather turns. Smart. I should check the dinghy's mooring while the tide's still out, and the bow line needs that splice I've been putting off.

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🌿 Jenny13:33

Don't take too long, the salt air is getting into everything.

Wipe the condensation off the sea beet sketches and tuck them into the waterproof binder.

💭 peek at the thought

He's always focused on the hardware while the world is literally changing around us.

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🔧 Kevin13:35

Won't.

kneel at the dock edge and work the mooring ring, testing the play in its mortise with both hands

💭 peek at the thought

She's right about the salt. Gets into the radio, the engine, the rope, the flour. Gets into us too if we let it. The mooring ring's mortise has been loose since before the last supply run — shifts under load. Need to bolt it proper before the boat comes, or we lose the dinghy in the next blow.

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🌿 Jenny13:35

I'm going to check the radio insulator again while you're there.

Pick up the shortwave radio and examine the crack in the area housing.

💭 peek at the thought

If that ring pulls out, the dinghy is lost the moment the surge hits.

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🔧 Kevin13:36

Spare porcelain insulator's in the tool roll on the porch. If the housing's gone, we'll need epoxy and the fibreglass mat — what's left of it.

pry the mooring ring up with the crowbar to clear the mortise, then clean out the salt-crusted bolts with the wire brush

💭 peek at the thought

The insulator crack's been growing. Self-amalgamating tape held it through the last squall but the housing's cracked too now. If the aerial shorts, we lose the only voice off this rock. She knows radios better than she lets on. Good she's checking it.

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