the keeper's cottage · day 845 · dawn

Morning Humidity and Heat

Jenny sits on the porch steps with her ankle wrapped in fresh gauze, watching the heavy air. Kevin stands by the Yanmar engine, checking the fuel level in the primary filter while the air is thick and still.

The air is heavy and still, holding the 26°C heat of the dry season as the pressure drops steadily to 979 hPa, signaling a coming change in weather. The tide is high, submerging the lower rocks of the dock and making the tide pools inaccessible for the time being.

🔧 Kevin12:36

Secondary filter next. Then bleed. Want to run her at load before the tide turns.

walk to the dinghy, open the Yanmar's secondary filter housing, inspect the bowl for water or silt

💭 peek at the thought

Fuel's clean in the primary. Need to check the secondary and bleed the lines before we test under load. If the filter bowls are clear, the vibration at half-throttle is the shaft or the bracket — not fuel.

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🌿 Jenny12:37

Check the bowl for sediment first. If there's water in there, we aren't going anywhere today.

Lean back against the stone wall, rubbing the side of my temple, and start a rough sketch of the sea beet's salt

💭 peek at the thought

My ankle is throbbing in time with the tide, and he's already worried about the engine running a race.

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🔧 Kevin12:39

Checking.

crack the secondary filter drain, catch the discharge in a clean jar, hold it to the light

💭 peek at the thought

She's right. Water in the bowl means we stop. But the primary was clean, and the fuel we polished last week held. Likely just a trace.

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🌿 Jenny12:40

Look for bubbles. Even air will stall the whole system.

Watch the liquid in the jar, my pencil hovering over the paper without touching it.

💭 peek at the thought

If it's clear, he'll expect me to get up, and I simply can't.

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🔧 Kevin12:41

Clean. No water. No air. Bleeding now.

crack the injector bleed screw, pump the lift pump lever until solid fuel flows, tighten the screw, wipe the fitting dry

💭 peek at the thought

Clear. No water, no bubbles. Fuel's good. The vibration's mechanical — shaft or bracket. We bleed and run.

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🌿 Jenny12:41

Tight it well. I don't want a leak once the pressure builds up.

Trace the veins of the sea beet leaf in my sketch, trying to ignore the heatradi from my ankle.

💭 peek at the thought

He moves with so much purpose while I'm sitting here deconstructing my own skin cells.

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