It has been raining, and raining, for the past few days, so much so, that I have not been able to secure the 3 pages that blew off the roof. Finally, today (Sunday) a brief sunny period allowed me to hop up the ladder and re-secure the 3 wayward paper sheets to the roof. I was not prepared for what I was to discover. The 3 sheets of paper in the plastic sheet protectors that remained on the roof, have all become totally wet. Due to heavy rain, the water penetrated the bottom ends of the plastic protectors which, I guess, were not well sealed and, due to capillary action the water seeped up all 3 sheets of paper and acted on the inks. Not surprisingly, since the paper has been wet for hours, the less water resistant (Ottoman Rose, Ottoman Azure, Midnight Blue, Blue Squeteague inks have faded considerably, to the point where they are illegible or semi-legible (Dark Matter and Borealis Black). The test has now taken on a different flavour: The plastic protected pages are now testing for water resistance and fade resistance as are the unprotected pages. However, the plastic protected pages are going to take a long time to dry, meaning the ink is subject to the action of light and water constantly, whilst the unprotected pages will dry quickly and be subject to moisture only some of the time. It will be interesting to see how this all turns out...
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| Water seeped into the plastic sheet protector and almost washed away Dark Matter and Borealis Black |
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| Black and Luxury Blue, in the plastic protector, provide peace of mind! |
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| Midnight Blue has almost vanished in the plastic protected environment. |
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