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Season 4 - Episode 221 - Rain, birds and ideas! · 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.
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  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. From the porch I'm sure you can
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  hear in the background water and there is water, water
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  everywhere. It's been.
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  Pouring non-stop all day yesterday.
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  I think it started Thursday evening.
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  And currently our pond, which is about 1/4 of an acre and it's 11
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  feet deep. So it's a pretty deep pond and
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  it's it was here. We didn't put it in.
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  It was here when we got our property.
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  It is out of its banks and it is on the move and it is spreading.
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  Our little bench that we have on the edge is underwater.
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  I've got plants along the edge that are underwater.
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  This is not the first time it's happened.
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  I'm very aware that it can happen, but this one is on the
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  move now and we've got another pond forming over by the girls
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  in the chicken coop. They are completely safe.
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  The sun is up. Well the sky is bright.
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  But the the truth is I am not walking out there to open their
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  main doors. Not because I would don't want
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  to get wet and because I've been sick, but because more of them
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  will stay inside and stay dry if I don't open those main doors up
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  yet. So I've been watching on my
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  little radar app on my phone and saying OK, I'm going to go out
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  there. Looks like it's going to break
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  in about 45 minutes and I'll be able to at least get a break and
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  walk out there. Now what am I talking to you all
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  about today? So here's something really
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  interesting. For years I have fed the birds
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  and I really started this whole thing off in honor of my mother
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  because my mother always fed the birds and it reminds me of her
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  and I love doing that and I love having the birds here.
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  And I have bitched, that's the only word I can use, and moaned
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  about all the different types of bird feeders that are out there
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  because the food always gets wet.
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  It doesn't stay dry, you know, And I feel like they're cheaply
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  made. They are, you know, that whole,
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  if you have never heard of it, there's this thing called
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  planned obsolescence. People make products now to
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  break, so you have to rebuy them.
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  And it irritates the heck out of me because bird feeders, if
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  you're not a bird feeder person, they get ruined very quickly.
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  Now, is it because they're in the elements?
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  Probably. But even when you go to a place
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  like wild birds, the, the, what they build might be different,
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  but it is not great. It doesn't protect the food that
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  you put out there from getting wet.
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  So like right now I can, I'm standing on my porch and I'm
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  looking at the bird feeder and I can see that one of my Cardinals
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  is sitting on the flight deck that has a, a cover and he's
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  just staying out of the rain. Now here's what's interesting
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  about this. I've never recognized.
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  You don't usually see them hanging out when there's nothing
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  there and he is literally hanging out staying out of the
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  rain on this little flight deck. Now this flight deck.
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  What drives me crazy about this quality made out of this
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  melamine. I think it's like it's like a
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  formed plastic, some type of melamine plastic or something.
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  But anyway, so it's the roof of this thing is just covering.
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  It just barely covers the deck where the food goes.
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  So when it rains, you know, everything just blows in.
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  And I'm sitting here and I've often been told multiple times
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  by people that if you build a big covered area for them to
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  come in, they will not come in because they need to see the
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  feeders. And now here I am standing here.
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  I can't go out to the chickens yet.
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  I'm I'm in my creative head. I'm waiting to talk to all of
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  you and I'm going what? What, Why would they believe
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  that? Why would they believe such a
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  thing? And I'm challenging all of those
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  thoughts. Again.
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  I've done this before, but now, now that I see that this bird is
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  there, now that I see what's happening, there is no doubt in
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  my mind I'm going to change my structure and my setup, and I am
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  going to do it by myself because I can't find it.
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  So this is going to become a fall project for me where I am
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  going to redesign my bird feeder area and I'm going to give them
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  some sort of a structure that they can come to and sit under
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  even in the rain so that they don't have to get wet.
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  And I'm going to figure this out.
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  I have, I have, I brought you into the middle of a creative
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  moment where I'm, my brain is on fire with how I can do this.
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  And as far as these bird feeders go, I got to tell you if there's
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  a person out there that designs bird feeders and wants feedback
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  on it, please call me because please DM us, let us know
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  because I'll tell you there are so many factors that these
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  people miss. And I swear I, because I am so
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  observant in what I do in my world, I could give a lot of
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  great feedback to somebody to actually make one that would be
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  stellar. So that's what we're about to
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  do. We're about to go off on this
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  tangent and we're to do this and I'm not putting it aside and I'm
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  going to figure it out. So took you inside that rabbit
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  hole with me for a moment and it came out to this conclusion.
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  Don't give up on your thoughts because somehow when you have
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  those creative thoughts and you see that that it's born out of,
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  there's something not working, Always pay attention to it
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  because one, it's fun to be that creative, and two, there's a
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  chance to fix it. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.