 Good morning, YouTube! Alright everybody, welcome back to the vlog. VLOG, do you know what that stands for? I actually, seven years ago when I did my first vlog in 2009, 2010, I had to look up because nobody really was doing it at that time, like, consistently, so I had to figure out like, what does that word mean? It means video, it's video blog condensed down to VLOG. Alright, tip number one for how to vlog. And I am speaking from the mindset of daily vlogging. Keep that in mind, it's getting a little bright, hold on. Basically, take your camera everywhere. Take your camera everywhere. Now this could be your phone camera on your phone, it could be your, you know, little point and shoot, G7X or whatever, or it could be your DSLR, which is what I'm using. So, take your camera everywhere because you never know when you're going to have clouds like this. As I'm going throughout today, I'm just going to be throwing tips and tricks at you as they come to my mind. I don't have time to like, write it out and talk, you know, it's like, so I'm just going to let you, let you have it. If you are a night owl, edit your vlog at night before you go to bed. If you are a morning person, wah, right here, right here, you should edit in the morning. When you have your coffee, your brain is getting going. I, once after 10 p.m., when a lot of YouTubers edit their vlog, I am dead. My editing, first of all, I would not have enjoyed as much, and it would be a lot harder for me to make good decisions in the editing. So, if you're a morning person, edit in the morning. If you're a night owl, edit at night. Just a little tip, little tip, so, because it's important to think about when you're setting up your day, how am I going to edit a vlog every single day? If you do it daily. All right. All right, so we got the aerator. I'm going to explain what the machine is here in a second. But before we fire it up, we're going to do one more dose of water. Remember in yesterday's vlog, check that out toward the end. Fast forward to like the seven minute mark. And basically I want to get a good, one more good layer of water down on the lawn, and that will help with aerating, fertilizing. Remember, massage your yard, massage your lawn. Kind of like your dog. Well, these things right there, those are called, basically they create these plugs in your yard, and that allows water, air, and fertilizer to go down into the roots. And I have another trick I'm going to show you here in one second. But let's see if I can get it out of the car. It's going to be interesting. Close. Gas to power that up. Isn't that cool? OK, you ready to close it? OK, you close it. You got it. Good job. Look how it does in here. The trick, the tip that nobody else, I've never seen anybody else do this. Aerating is crucial for your yard. It makes holes in your yard, and you're like, wait a minute, that's a bad thing. No, that's a great thing. Because then the fertilizer, the water, the air, it can go down to the roots. You've got to nourish your roots like your life. We've got to nourish ourselves deep down. So basically, this is the aerator. This is the 45-pound dumbbell that I just got from the shed. And I put it on top. I'm going to tie it on. And that is going to add, well, 45 pounds. So instead of making inch-deep plugs into the grass, it's going to make two-and-a-half-inch deep plugs, meaning the nutrients are going to go deeper to the roots, more nourishment. This is a trick that is what I do, and it works really, really well because my grass is usually pretty green. So that is the trick of the day, tip of the day, and let's strap it on. All right. Here we go. Time to fire it up. Tip of the day. I know this is turning into a lawn care vlog, but basically, do not hire an aeration company. Call me up. Because the aeration company will only go over each square foot of yard one time. That's not enough. If you really want the good stuff to go to the roots, you got to go over it three, four. I just went over the backyard at least five times you saw it in the time lapse. And that is how you really break up the nasty winter sludge that is in your yard and whatever else. So that is the other tip of the day, and for the how to vlog tip, don't be afraid to use time lapses to tell your story because it basically condenses the last hour and a half of work in the backyard into a short 12 second segment for your audience. Make sense? Capiche? All right. Now we got to take the machine back. You guys better move. So back at the house after picking up some fertilizer and you guys may not even know this, but you should. True love is from, true love is from Chicago. So now that you have about, I don't know, I'd estimate about 100,000 holes in your yard. No. I don't know. 50,000? I don't know. Now it's time for one more dose of water from the sprinkler system, even though I'm hoping for a little more rain today, but I don't know if it's going to happen. So I forgot that I was in charge of three human beings under the age of five this afternoon. So as far as the how to vlog, I'm going to do my best later on today. Thanks for bearing with me, but there's three little human beings running around right now. And basically, I have my full attention. You know how it goes. But I am very excited about this. I'm going to talk about it in a little bit. The vlog is not done. Okay. The vlog is not done. Oh my gosh. Kofuzy. You guys who've been watching the vlog for a little while, Kofuzy, go check out his channel below. Kofuzy. You, sir, have kicked off the postal party for the vlog. Kofuzy is from Chicago. So check out his vlog. He does great vlogs. He really focuses a lot on running, on time lapses, working with like GoPro's and like mastering the GoPro's. What else does he like to do? Transit. So like taking the trains through Chicago, which I love, sorry. And so Kofuzy, thank you for the postcard. You kicked off the first ever item received at the PO Box, 1779, I almost forgot my PO Box. So it's PO Box, 1779 Englewood, Colorado, 801-50. And yes, if you send mail, if you send whatever, chocolate, coffee, whiskey, I will give you a big ol' shout out and a link to your channel down below. Seek beauty, work hard, love each other. Thank you Kofuzy, Michael, for the postcard from Chicago. See you tomorrow.