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Membrane

I want to be bound up in a vacuumized membrane like this so badly.

Rubberstud of the Week #377

Wildfires!

 

For the past three days, Vancouver has been shrouded in forest fire smoke from a huge fire north of Whistler near Pemberton. We haven't had an appreciable rain in Vancouver since April 20; everything is tinder dry, small fires have erupted on the North Shore, Stanley Park and Burnaby Mountain, many of these due to cigarettes and sparks; most of the bigger ones in the rural/remote areas are due to lightning strikes. But the fact remains that it is only the beginning of July, our reservoirs are as low as they normally would be at the end of August, and trees are already dropping leaves due to heat stress. June is normally a wet month.

We had to be careful when camping last week: 35C pretty much every day, fire bans, no open flames; there are already water restrictions in the city and Parks and Rec Dept is encouraging homeowners to water the stressed out young trees near their properties to prevent them from dying.

Sunday was the worst day - as we returned to the city from camping, it was muggy, smokey, and smelled like woodfire in the air which permeated everything. By Monday things were already better but the air advisory is still in effect today. Though it was cool and 'overcast' riding to work this morning, the particulates are gone and no smell of smoke.

I've been exposed to forest fire smoke living on the Prairies for years but this seems a novelty to the West Coasters, and of course they love to marvel in things that they assume are unique and special about them but the updates and news reports were a bit overboard. The air quality and particulate counts were pretty shitty on Sunday though.

I do fear that this summer is going to be CATASTROPHIC for forest fires in British Columbia and the entire western side of North America. As you would expect, I was scheming ways to avoid the smoky, ashy air...and the full-head gas masks immediately came to mind. If there's an opportunity to spin some positivity from a bad situation.....

Flexible Alpha

Holy buff bod in tight spandex, Batman!

Communication Protocols

A technical diagram. Who knew engineers had such kinky family setups?

Rubbout at Vancouver Fetish Weekend

The official Vancouver Fetish Weekend posters went out on the weekend. Check out the Uniform Party poster: Rubbout front and center! :)

I hadn't seen this pic before that we took in front of the cop car last year. I'm glad that it turned out well enough to be used in the official promotion materials.

Rubberstud(s) of the Week #376

Happy Canada Day 2015!

Unfortunately fire bans in effect already means no fireworks tonight up at the camp, but we hope to be generating some fireworks of our own!

Camping

We are off camping again this week! Heading to Shadow Falls tonight, celebrating Canada Day tomorrow and staying until Sunday. We're experiencing a heat wave on the coast here; temperatures are expected to hover around 35C during the day for the entire time we're there. Thank dog for ice-cold mountain streams to jump into to escape the heat. We will be joined by 12-15 of our friends on two sites, including the Victoria faction again, and some of our friends escaping the city. It should be a blast!

It's hard to believe we are having such a great summer. Two weekends ago in Whistler was great, despite it being cool and rainy on Saturday. We honestly haven't seen any significant rain or cool temps here in the city for many weeks now. The lawns and trees are already getting dry-stressed, and it's not even the end of June yet.

This past weekend, Mr. P and I had a young friend that we've known for awhile come over. He has wanted to dick me for some time so we played with him on Friday night. He was planning to go out after so I made additional plans to go over to play with M and his boyfriend later in the evening. The young friend was an hour late so though we had fun, we had to eventually shut it down so I could get to my next commitment. We wrapped things up at the condo around 11:15, I hopped on my bike and headed over to Mount Pleasant to join M and his bf. We played until about 4am; it was a lot of fun! It was the first time M's boyfriend and I played together as well as the first time all three of us played together. We spent a lot of time in the sling, it was awesome. Sluts!

So, here we are; all of the usual suspects are coming camping with us, in addition to Wardog and the Victoria faction. The fact that M and I are both bringing up slings isn't lost on us HAHAHA! I'm looking forward to two or three days of relative downtime with the gang until the Canada Day/Independence Day weekend madness descends upon Shadow Falls. I guess this will be about it for major updates though I will try to post some pics (at a minimum, at least capture some of the fun for posting next week). Have a great week - AND HAPPY CANADA DAY to all!