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   æsthetically unpredictable
Thursday, April 16 2009

Now that I had a wonderful ceiling of Wonderboard in the greenhouse, it was time to start making it look like the rest of the masonry interior of the greenhouse, with its patchy overlays of Portland cement. Portland cement is an æsthetically unpredictable substance in that it can cure in any shade from dark grey to light grey (though I've yet to figure out how to manipulate its final color without using tints). But I love the natural organic quality of a wall covered in Portland cement stucco, and so today I began stucco'ing the ceiling, focusing mostly on the joints between the Wonderboard panels (where I'd applied layers of fiberglass mesh).
Meanwhile the weather had taken a conclusive turn for the springward, with temperatures surpassing 60 Fahrenheit and a sunny cloudless sky.


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