Since I made some stencils it was time to add the designs to my strawberry planters I painted. Using some regal red spray paint and my stencils made with thick paper I tape it up and get to spraying. The over spray is something I had to deal with at first but after learning I added more paper and tape around where I was spray painting. I ended up adding the logo to all four sides, maybe next time ill just add it to one or two of the sides instead. Just got really into spraying that stencil.. haha I plan on using this stencil again for my bee hives, though I may have to make a slightly smaller one, this stencil may not fit on my bee hives. I can easily make another one by printing out a slightly smaller logo on my laser printer and then etching it out just like I did in a previous post. See link below on how I did it. https://peakd.com/hive/@solominer/made-some-hive-stencils-for-spray-painting and https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@solominer/video-of-making-my-own-hive-stencils The bees wont mind the logo, actually they wont even be able to see it. Red is one color that bees cannot see. So I guess it will just look like plain bee box to them. Not that I think the bees would be offended by the Hive logo or anything, they would probably dig it if they understood the technology.. hehe The stencils have held up well, I thought they were going to rip but glad I ended up using the thicker paper. Its the stuff you would draw on or make posters out of. I found the copy paper too thin and easy to tear after stenciling the Hive logo. So I bought some poster board and redid it on there. The only thing was the over spray I had to watch out for, and to make sure I had the stencil flush against what I was spraying it on. Or the logo comes out a little fuzzy. I may make a really large stencil so I could put it on my wall somewhere in the house. But I think thats something I need to research how to do as I would need multiple poster boards to accomplish that. Maybe ill scale up to that before trying such a large project. And since my laser printer can only print up to letter size and legal size it might be harder than I think to do multiple sections of a stencil. For a single poster board logo this one I spray painted on the planter is probably as big as my printer can handle. I would need to order a print from a larger printer if I wanted to do a single print design for stenciling.

The fight outside the guard house was getting pretty intense, between the cops and by bodyguards there was alot of shooting going on. Making a run for the swat truck and escape from the lot we were in. Most of the bodyguards have been taken down so its just me and one other. https://i.postimg.cc/bYTy4459/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-14h53m18s619.png I stop by a crane and climb up to see if I could get a better shot but had a hard time seeing any of them. https://i.postimg.cc/HnZCj1DG/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-14h54m25s096.png So I take the express route to the ground by jumping off the side. https://i.postimg.cc/MGVx5LRR/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-14h55m21s206.png Finding a cop car right by where I land I take the car and speed off. https://i.postimg.cc/cLKdgCLF/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-14h56m26s959.png One of the tires got shot out when trying to make a get away so I put on the sirens to hopefully keep cars out of my way. I come across a road block and get stopped by it but luckily another cop car was there for me to grab. https://i.postimg.cc/76N48TKZ/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-14h59m35s039.png Dodging the swat trucks and cop cruisers I try to put on some space between me and police. Though I eventually crash and need to find another vehicle. I ditch the busted cruiser and come across a swat truck. I run up and get in it. But trying to make a break through a barrier really messed it up. But I drive off and come across another car. https://i.postimg.cc/V6wwVFBh/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-15h01m34s058.png In a parking lot I see some good cars to pick and before the police catch up and choose a Mustang like car. But as soon as I flee a cop shoots out my tire, so I ditch that car right away for what must be the fifth car change in this chase. I mean yeah I got godmode on but the vehicles take damage so those must be changed every so often. https://i.postimg.cc/g2fmvpwm/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-15h04m53s755.png Having fun with a stunt by the airport I send the cop car flying that I grab when that cars tires are shot out. Then I make a turn for the airport runway and see if there are some aircraft to take to make a better get away. https://i.postimg.cc/vTHsQHKL/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-15h07m19s213.png I indeed found a jet and take it just as a swat truck is pulling up where I ditched my vehicle. https://i.postimg.cc/zX2JGK8L/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-15h08m05s832.png They try to shoot at me as I take off but they do not succeed in grounding me. It does appear the windscreen got shot out and one of the engines is smoking but thats it. https://i.postimg.cc/G3qRXGBM/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-15h09m13s434.png I fly for awhile trying to make as much distance as possible, but they do just spawn in when you have four stars so maybe I cannot get away without going into the mountains or something. https://i.postimg.cc/bw2jY5mM/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-15h10m20s951.png The smoking of the engine gets worse so I put down the aircraft on one of the roads far away from where I took off. Looks like a pretty rough landing. https://i.postimg.cc/50fc32fd/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-15h11m25s604.png Ditching my aircraft after it crashes into a car I dont want the vehicle to explode with me in it. So I bail and a light post drops on me.. lol I can hear the cop sirens closing in, so I try to take the car that my jet crashed into but it was totaled. So I take a cop car until I can find something better. https://i.postimg.cc/PqWsYwsQ/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-15h14m14s259.png Had the idea of using a bus, they are pretty tough once up to speed. But I get it pinned and as the cops arrive I had to opportunity to pin a cop car to a wall to stop them from being able to exit. https://i.postimg.cc/XvS6rghv/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-15h16m00s014.png Throwing some grenades I take out the cover for the police arriving on the scene. I just start dropping grenades as I run leaving explosions in my wake. https://i.postimg.cc/50ghkWtH/vlcsnap-2021-03-08-15h17m09s632.png Playing with godmode can be fun in new ways, just keep running for as much as you want without getting wasted. I do enjoy using trainers in this game on single player and just doing whatever I want, not following missions or anything. Solominer Presents:| Grand Theft Auto V with enhanced native trainer Update 42 | -|-| Year | 2013 Genre | Action-Adventure Console | PC Platform | Windows 10

Making a push for the unclaimed areas around the great swamp, since the military hq is too intense to take over. The plan is to take over the outposts around that area and then slowly close in on that location. I make a run for a broken down car and wait for backup to arrive. They got taken out by unknown forces, could not see who was shooting at them. But after taking out my troops they started to fire on my position by the car. I died a few times but kept trying to take the location. With explosions off in the distance I could tell the bots were putting up a fight. I come across an injured monolith troop and I gave him a medpack to heal with. Eventually I make my way into a base and secure it. Taking the enemy troops ammo and supplies that I find useful. I can hear a battle going off in the distance, closing in on the military they are putting up a good fight. Found some allies around a camp fire and tried to sell them what I did not need though none of them would have it. Moving back towards the areas that are not captured. I am careful not to get shot at by enemies trying to retake the areas I just captured. Some monsters found me and I had to fend off these little creatures, they sure pack a punch and really hard to shoot at. Three of them attack me and I had to take them out with the knife. One of my bases got over run, and I headed back there to recapture it. But quickly got shot at, so I had to take cover. Solominer Presents:| S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly | -|-| Year | 2018 Genre | First Person Shooter Console | PC Platform | Windows 10

When I moved to Georgia I would see this evergreen plant in the forests and sometimes in peoples yards. I did not learn till years later that the berries it produces are edible. A follower of mine @goat-girlz mentioned they are indeed edible and can be used to make a jam. She goes on saying they can be found throughout the forests in Oregon, probably where it got its name. Georgia shares similar climates to Oregon in some areas so makes sense it grows in both places. I made the jam last year and it had a flavour like Cranberries. The jam was a dark crimson red color and only yielded a few tablespoons once cooked down. If eaten raw they can be very sour like a lemon. This spring the plant flowered and produced fruit again, but I must be quick as the birds will eat them all the day they are ripe. They turn a dark blue color when ripe and feel a little soft. These plants are like hollies with stiff pointy leaves, care needs to be taken handling them as they can pierce the skin. The plants I bought have been around for about five years now and are really starting to leaf out. I moved one of them as I planted both of them too close together when I got them. Moving one about a hundred feet away from the other. Interestingly when I pulled up one of the plants, I found the roots a bright yellow color like Turmeric. Not something I regulatory see and found it interesting. Oregon Grape also known as a Leatherleaf Mahonia is a great plant for my Bees. The flowers form in late winter and open usually a week or so before the Solitary Bees emerge. Since not much else is flowering at the time the Bees tend to cover this plant and really do a good job pollinating them and making fruit appear all over the plant. The plant has origins from mainland China and Taiwan and was brought to Europe at some point and then found its self in America.