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Season 4 - Episode 289 - The freeze is here… Ugh! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. It's early.
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  I'm in the garage. It's dark, it's cold.
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  I'm surrounded by plants that I ran in last night at the last
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  minute, some extra ones from outside that I wasn't ready to
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  lose yet. My some of my pots that, you
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  know, have annuals in them. But I'm like, I know it's going
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  to be warm again in a couple of days.
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  So I stuffed everybody in the garage and I'm standing in here
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  with them. And one of the things that I
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  learned yesterday about myself, and you know, if you're a
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  regular listener, you know that I have issues with cutting
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  flowers that are not in the designated cut flower garden
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  because I have that whole side of me that's very like connected
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  to them. And I don't want to like take
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  their life and bring them in and say, oh, you know, unless they
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  knew that's what was happening to them.
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  And that includes my rose Bush. And I have these big, I've
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  experiment with lots of different things here in the
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  last five years because being here, well, really the last four
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  years, because the year we moved in, I didn't get to do too much,
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  but I've done a ton of experimenting because the
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  conditions here are harsh and, and I do genuinely mean that
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  while they can be ideal for some plants, they can be really
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  harsh. And because I like certain
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  things was, as we all know, if you, again, if you're a regular
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  listener and you know, my fiasco with peonies and ranunculus and
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  things like that, where I was insistent, I was insistent it
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  was going to work. And it doesn't, you know, it
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  just doesn't work. You might get a plant, but it
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  doesn't mean it's going to flower.
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  You just can't. I mean, I personally here on
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  this patch of five and a quarter acres, I cannot do it.
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  So I'm like, all right, whatever I have to say, I tried that.
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  It did not work. I'm going to move on because I
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  know it's something to do with the conditions of that plant.
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  And I always work trying very hard to like, you know, give
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  them the intent. Even when I have seeds, I'm
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  like, like really in my brain, I, as I'm planting the seeds,
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  I'm like talking to them. I'm blessing them.
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  I'm telling them that they, you know, I'm so happy that they're
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  here. I can't wait to take care of
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  them. I give them my whole little like
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  good juju that I'm pouring into this and my roses are not in a
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  spot where I cut them like they are not.
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  They are in a spot where I want to see them all the time.
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  So they're right in front of the chicken coop run.
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  I've planted some in different spots, but some of them don't
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  thrive where they are. They do OK, but they don't
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  thrive. And it could just be other
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  conditions that show up. It could just be that it's not
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  that right kind of flower for here, who knows what it is.
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  But this particular rose Bush that I have, it's called James
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  Galloway from David Austin Roses.
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  It just goes crazy all summer. Like from the moment spring hits
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  all the way till right now, it goes crazy.
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  In fact, it's so awesome and so gorgeous.
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  I'm going to order more and I'm going to line the whole front of
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  the chicken coop run with them because they are spectacular.
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  The color, the size, everything about them is absolutely
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  stunning. So I'm going to replicate it.
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  Now some may say, well, why wouldn't you try different
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  kinds? Well, I have other kinds out
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  there and they're not thriving, so I've got to dig them up, move
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  them and put them somewhere else because they don't like it
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  there. But for some reason, this
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  particular one loves it and I love watching it and I'm always
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  out there deadheading it. And as soon as I deadhead, I get
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  more and we just have a great relationship.
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  Me and this rose Bush, I love it.
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  Well, last night, I mean, it's been blooming all along and I
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  knew it's going to be the freeze, right?
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  This is the freeze. It's coming tonight, the first
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  one early than expected for sure, but it's headed this way.
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  So I have to make a decision. Am I just going to leave them on
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  there or am I going to take them in?
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  Because I don't normally cut unless I'm dead heading and
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  that's just my thing. So I had this whole debate in my
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  head. Everyone on my bus, all the
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  committee emotions of the committee had to meet, and I
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  pulled an executive order and said, you know what?
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  I'm going to cut them and covet them in the House and just
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  really enjoy them. Put them in a vase right on the
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  sink and take the time to love them because they're the last
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  roses of the season. I shot a video about it and the
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  process of doing that, it seems so silly, but for me, it's a
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  really big deal. I don't like cutting them.
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  I was struggling last night because I saw butterflies still
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  out there on some of my Mexican sunflowers.
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  And I was like, Oh my gosh, this is going to be like, what's
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  going to happen to them? And I started to have the panic
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  in me about how can I protect these butterflies overnight?
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  And I'm like, I can't. This is Mother Nature.
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  They know what to do. I have all the stuff out there.
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  Those sunflowers should be able to last if we just get down.
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  And we're hovering right at 33 right now.
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  So it might be that everything's OK, We'll see.
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  But I ended up cutting the roses and I ended up bringing them in
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  and I ended up, no joke, I was crying while I was cutting them,
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  apologizing, saying I'm taking you in so I can enjoy the last
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  bit of you. I appreciate you.
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  And it seems like, you know, I took them in and it seems to me
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  that is as soon as I brought them in the house, they got more
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  beautiful. They expanded.
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  Now, it may be my imagination and I may be having silly
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  imaginative thoughts, but I really think that they filled
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  out more in the warmth. They filled out more.
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  They look fantastic and they're giving me their last push as a
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  gift. So I think they understood.
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  I understood. And the last roses of the season
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  have been cut, and now we really hunker down and we get ready for
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  next year. But in the process of it, I
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  learned a lot about myself and I recognize I'm still, I still
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  have that issue where I don't like to cut.
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  I still have that softness and I'm OK with that.
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  And I'm going to plant a hell of a lot more roses.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and don't be ashamed
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  if you have those same thoughts because they're part of us.
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  It's the softness of us. And I'm OK with that feminine
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  part of myself. I really love her.
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  And I think that she deserves to, you know, get a pat on the
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  back for loving things so much. So I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day and I hope you pat yourselves on the back and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.