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Teflon Leaves!

20 years ago

I visited my cousin in Seattle over the weekend, and raided her yard for leaves -- came home with a big load of booty! She has something called a "plume poppy" (I haven't looked up its botanical name yet) that has the most interestingly-shaped leaves, but trying to put concrete on them is amazingly difficult! It just slides right off. I had noticed when I spritzed the leaves with water that the water droplets bounced off like droplets of mercury, but hadn't thought about the implications at the time.

I finally mixed up a slurry of Portland with water and a generous amount of Elmer's carpenter's glue and painted it on with a paintbrush. It still didn't want to stay on, but with persistence I finally got a solid (but very thin) coat all over it, and was able to get some thicker concrete on top of that. Should be interesting to see how it turns out - I'm wondering if I'll have problems with flaking.

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