Sep 2 2006
Fibreglass
I found a supplier for fibreglass and decided to tackle the back porch myself. Covering it in fibreglass reinforced polyester will make it weather resistant for a couple of decades or so, without it having to be repainted every two years.
I had some experience with polyester since I built a couple of windsurf boards when I was young and later we used it to manufacture parts of the climbing walls we built. But still it’s a messy and stressful undertaking. You have to work fast because the polyester will cure and then you can’t continue. And you shouldn’t topple over a full container with your foot, like I did. Fortunately it dripped on the new soil that I’d put there a couple of weeks ago and not on the concrete. Now it will just harden and then we can throw it away. My shoe is now also completely blue-grey and my foot was too, but I cleaned it with acetone. Can’t use acetone to clean the shoe, because it’s made out of foam (they’re Crocs, made in Québec) and it might dissolve in acetone.
The result looks quite nice, I mixed the colour myself because their standard colours were quite dull.
Sunday, 3 September, 2006 @ 20:52
Hey, where’s that picture I took from the back? (Mark was wearing very old and ripped shorts: utterly delightful!)
Sunday, 3 September, 2006 @ 21:15
tell me more about the crocs! i love them (although honestly why is the maryjane not offered in blue? blue is all i care about, people, don’t you know it?!), but on the site they talk a lot about colorado – i didn’t see anything about québec (although i thought i had heard they were made in québec before too…)! i need to know: i need shoes and am too broke, but if they were blue *and* made in québec, well…!
Monday, 4 September, 2006 @ 10:22
They are made in Québec, but the company was bought by a Colorado campany who’ve been better at marketing. I bought mine three years ago for 20 dollars, they are now 35 dollars everywhere.
An article in The Gazette.
Monday, 4 September, 2006 @ 12:12
Crocs! Argh! I knew it!
a href=”https://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2006/05/31/say-no-to-the-crocs/”>https://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2006/05/31/say-no-to-the-crocs
Monday, 4 September, 2006 @ 14:51
Since when was I ever fashionable? I have wide feet and Crocs are wide. And they’re yellow. Need I say more?
Monday, 4 September, 2006 @ 20:45
Apparently Manoloís biggest complaint about Crocs are that they donít contribute to the overdetermination of gender.
I actually *like* that about Crocs. And Mark.
Tuesday, 5 September, 2006 @ 01:30
BTW I don’t need manolos.
Tuesday, 5 September, 2006 @ 14:28
i’m definately getting some – i had at least two dreams about them last night!! (yeah, umh, well, my awake life is somewhat more interesting, thank you…)