(piano solo, wind)
Okay, I had this great plan for today to wrap up December, and wrap up 2017, and
the wind was blowing really hard today, and that makes it impossible to record
audio. So, I had to change my plan. The wind has died down a little bit. It's
about nine o'clock now. I usually shoot about 7:30, and I'm going to show you
what it looked like about seven o'clock this morning in a second.
But, this past Thursday was the last Thursday workday in 2017. I didn't want
to take the time to set up the tripod and film video because we had a lot to
do, so I shot stills. So I'm going to blast through that really quick, then
we're going to take a look at the wind on my garden this morning, and we're
going to look forward into 2018, so stay with me.
(soft piano continues)
One of the challenges to filming a garden vlog is you never know what the
weather's going to be. You never know what your street noise is going to be
when you live in a city, and so you always have to be creative how you
problem solve and how you work with wherever the sun is. We can talk about
that more, about how I shoot my videos, if you'd like to know just let me know. What
I did this morning is, you know my little tool shed that used to be a playhouse
that I converted to my garden shed, you see it right in my front yard you see it
in almost every video, I put the camera in the shed and that's how I'm dealing
with the wind, with the noise on the microphone today. So I have made a
Herculean effort in the last 18 months to produce over 200 videos for my
channel at a time when the YouTube algorithm was more and more more videos.
I tried to deliver and I have been working non-stop, so this will be the
last video of 2017. And when I return in January, I am going to pick up where I
left off on my travel videos, because I never got through Amsterdam and Germany
on the Europe trip, and I didn't get through several of my wonderful friends
in the Southeast on that trip. I haven't gotten to those. There's six
videos right there. So there's about 20 travel videos that I still have to work
through and I still have a great video coming to you from Phoenix back on
Mother's Day. So it's a lot to do when I get back. Hold
that thought....
When the wind blows, water comes out the nose. Anyway, here we are in December and
I have not even met my most modest goals I made for myself in terms of my
subscribers, so if you love what I do and you're one of my hardcore fans, I hope
you will take the time to encourage at least 5 or 10 of your friends that might
be interested in this channel and get them to watch and hopefully they'll
subscribe and enjoy the content. Because I have to grow to keep going at the same
pace next year. I know I say this a lot but I really do depend upon your support
to help this channel grow. And if you're new to this channel, if you're new to me
right now, please go back and watch my YouTube 101 video I did a few weeks ago.
It'll tell you all the basics about how YouTube works and how content creators
get money for their work. Because we're offering our our heart and our soul, our
time and our effort to our viewers for free, so how do we get reimbursed for
some of that or monetized for our content? That's why it's so important
that you watch to the end of videos, you give that thumbs up, you recommend the
channel. All those things really help in the YouTube world to drive your
subscribers, and which ultimately means you make a little bit more money. That's
the promise that I've made for myself for 2018, that this channel is going to
be sustainable, which means I'm going to have to make less videos or get a lot
more subscribers. So I hope you'll help me get to where I need to be.
And I want to give a special shout-out to all my fans around the world,
especially those hard-hit by natural disasters this year. There have been so
many: Puerto Rico, oh, Northern California wildfires, the, the, the Thomas fire is
still burning, 60 miles of fire up in Santa Barbara. And this wind is the last
thing that we need. Oh, and I also want to give a special
shout out to my young Late Bloomer fans because young people are the future of
healthy food. There are a few young people that contact me regularly and I
want to give a shout out to Shalbin in India, and Munir in Sri Lanka, and Ben in
Canada, and Felix in Norway. That's just a few and I love you all and
I really appreciate all of your support. Please watch my holiday message video
that I shot right before Thanksgiving. That was intended for the whole holiday
season, but right now I just want to send you happy holidays and best wishes for
end of year December 2017. I'll see you in January.
(piano solo, wind)
(piano ends)