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Season 4 - Episode 139 -Friend or Foe? · 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 happen 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 from the chicken coop.
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Friend or foe? That's the question of the day.
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Now in gardening, that's a phrase we use a lot, friend or
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foe. And I was in my zucchini area,
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and zucchini is always something I love growing zucchini because
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I like all different forms of cooking with it.
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And one of my favorite things to do, believe it or not, is bake
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with it because it makes unbelievable chocolate muffins.
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So chocolate zucchini muffins are outrageous.
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They're delicious. And it's not just for main
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savories or whatever, but they make unbelievably good muffins.
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So I'm always like wanting to make zucchini.
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Plus, I use a lot of zucchini for the chickens and if I can
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grow some extra, that's great. But most of the time we eat the
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zucchini that's in the garden. But anyway, friend or foe, I'm
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out here the other night and I'm looking because they're so big
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now. I mean, they are giant.
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And this is the time when you'll start to see insects or squash
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bores things showing up. Now, I have taken extra
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precautions. I've been very, very careful
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with the whole thing this year, making sure I've got what I
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needed in order to have them taken care of.
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And to my, the best of my knowledge, I've, I've done
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everything that I potentially could that I knew of.
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And then I come in looking down, seeing what ones are going to be
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ready to be picked shortly. And all of a sudden I see this
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bug that I don't recognize. And in gardening, you often will
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refer to things as friend or foe, just like with snakes,
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friend or foe. And you got to know
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instantaneously. And this bug had red on it.
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And often times red is a sign of danger.
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It's just very strange how that works out.
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So I'm out there, I see this bug and I'm like friend or foe.
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And I didn't have my phone with me, so I couldn't identify it in
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my insect. The tab for identifying insects,
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I've got an app for it, not a tap.
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And it identifies sickness in the plants.
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It identifies all kinds of different things.
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But I didn't have my phone with me, so I was like, I panicked
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and I was yelling to see if Mark was around so I could grab him
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and see if he had it on his phone.
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And he comes over and right away he knew it was, he's like, it's
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a, it's definitely faux. But let me look it up.
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And he looked it up and he's like, no, it's faux.
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And so I'm standing there and I'm like, OK.
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And then we drop it, it's gone. And I'm like, he captured it.
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We dropped it. It's gone.
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I'm like, great, and I felt myself get so frustrated that it
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was that it was gone because I'm like, oh, it's going to do
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damage. And I future paced that I was
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going to come out in the morning.
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There was going to be all kinds of problems.
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It's laying eggs what is happening and I just got
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completely freaked out by it. Now, why am I telling you this?
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Because one, just the very words friend or foe make you get into
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a heightened state either way, if it's a friend, you're like,
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OK, it's exciting. He's here, he's going to take
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care of things. And if it's foe, this is like a
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detrimental, I've got to do something about it.
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And we set ourselves up for these kind of emotional
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reactions to it. Now, the truth is that probably
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wasn't the only one. And if it is out there, I have
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to really like obviously keep an eye on it, but me getting
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panicked about it does no good. So I sat there for about 20
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minutes on the on the the fabric that's around the in the garden
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and ice looking for it. My head under the squash plants
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and squash plants have very rough leaves and I get a rash
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from them pretty quickly when they get on my skin had a tank
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top on it's hot, I'm sweating. I'm trying to find this bug,
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can't find the bug and I had to let it go.
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And I got to tell you, I'm I don't do good letting things go.
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I'm I'm just going to be very honest about it.
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I've been out here. I'm standing here right in front
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of them right now looking, looking, looking, watching all
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the bees go into the squash. I mean, it's awesome when
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they're I see them all out here doing the their work and
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checking on things. And we have so many bumblebees
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out here this morning. They are very excited and I'm
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just thrilled to say that I have not found any other bugs.
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I did not need to panic quite as much as I did and I I have not
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seen anything else happening. There's nothing destructive
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happening, but what it did do is triggering me that I need to go
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and start some new plants just in case we have another one of
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those rounds like we did a couple years ago where there you
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just wake up one day and your squash plant is dead.
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So I'm going to start planting. I had a plan to do succession
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planting anyway, and I'm going to do that.
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But I'm realizing over and over again how the emotional reaction
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does not need to be one that takes you out.
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And for me, it did do that for a while to the point where I got a
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rash on me. So I thought you'd all find that
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story funny because even the coach has the problem sometimes.
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So I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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Bye.