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Season 4 - Episode 74 - Noseeums · 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. So today is a big work day on
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  the farm. Lots to be done, tons to be done
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  because we're getting ready to put plants in the ground,
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  getting ready to keep the chickens and the deer out of
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  areas so that they don't eat things, and just getting
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  everything set up. So today is a huge work day.
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  And obviously I'm posting this a little later than I normally
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  would, but that's predicated on the fact that I have, I've been
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  outside for hours already working on things, dealing with
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  plants and trying to eradicate some of these deadly little
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  weeds that are just awful. And they have the longest roots
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  and they dig underground. But up above they have, they
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  look like it's a very Pretty Little leaf, but there are
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  pickers all over it. When you touch them, it actually
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  burns your skin. So I was out there all morning
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  long trying to get ahead of it before the sun comes up because
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  today's supposed to be a very sunny, nice day.
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  And I don't want to work in the sun so long because it just
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  drains you after a little bit. But but we have these little
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  bugs here and they're called, we all call them noseums because
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  you can't see them. Obviously it's a very funny
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  little thing, but everybody here calls them the noseums.
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  And these noseums are just, I can't even begin to explain to
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  you how damn annoying they are. They fly in your face, but you
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  really can't see them. But they bite and they just get
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  in your ears, around your neck, in your nose, your eyes, and
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  they're so frustrating and you just want to scream every time
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  you're around them because they're so frustrating for me.
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  They love to go along the top of my hairline, like where my part
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  is, and they just eat at the top of my scalp.
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  And it drives me nuts. Now, one would think, OK, what's
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  the best way to get around this? So this morning I went out and I
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  have certain little things that like I've got one of those
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  little, it's kind of like a cowl neck, but you put it over your
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  head and it's for fishermen and it kind of like makes an extra
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  neck so you can pull it up over your face.
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  So I can do that and I can put it up over my ears.
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  I can put a hat on. But then by the time you see me
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  when I'm out there gardening, I've got goggles on, I've got a
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  hat on, I've got this thing pulled up, I've got a hood on.
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  And somehow they find a way in anyway.
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  So I was out there working until I was being mutilated by them
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  and then said, you know what, I'm going to go in, I'm going to
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  stop. I'm going to shoot the podcast
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  now. I'm going to because my initial
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  idea for the shooting, the podcast, it was not to talk to
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  you about noseeums and what they do.
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  But then it got me thinking about how all these little
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  things, no matter how prepared you think you are, sometimes in
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  life, you just have to say, OK, I need to change my approach
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  right now. So changing my approach is me
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  coming in and talking to you. While they will disappear
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  shortly, it's dawn and dusk really kind of typically are
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  when they're their worst. This on the part of the field
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  we're working, the sun has not come up all the way.
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  So that's why they're out there. And it's incredibly annoying.
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  So I have just moved myself inside.
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  I'm changing my approach. I'm going to make a protein
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  shake right now. I'm going to make myself feel
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  better physically and then I'll be able to go back outside.
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  And while I'm talking to you, I'm preparing to make a shake so
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  I can shift my approach and then go back out.
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  And where else does this show up in our life?
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  Like I, I was starting to get aggravated.
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  I was out there and I was like, I could feel myself getting
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  aggravated because I had a plan. I had a plan and they are
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  interrupting it. And then I realized, isn't this
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  funny? It's just like that old Buddhist
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  saying, if you don't think small things make a difference, spend
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  the night alone in a room with a mosquito, because that is
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  treacherous and it's so small but so annoying.
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  So rather than me trying to rush and get rid of the weed, which
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  is a small thing, yet incredibly annoying because it stretches
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  out, it wraps itself around plants, it goes everywhere like
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  bad thoughts do. It has to be eradicated, not
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  just on the surface, but pulling the root out, which takes
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  longer. So I have to be out there to do
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  that before we lay the fabric down.
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  And doing that is going to save a lot of aggravation on the
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  other side. Could I go along and just chop
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  it off at the top? Yes, but that would be the wrong
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  thing to do and that would change the outcome of the season
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  further along. So in the attempt to make
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  everything better and listen, farming is a passion and you
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  have to have a passion for it because there is nothing easy
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  about this. Nothing.
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  But it's a constant reminder that little weed has to go
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  because of its stretch and it's underground and it's above
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  ground and it's pickers and everything else.
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  Yet I was thrown off by something that I can't even see,
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  which is a smaller, smaller, tiny annoyance, yet the biggest
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  thing eating away at my skin. So when this shows up in your
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  life in other spots, just stop, pause, go inside, get a get your
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  head clear, change your location, shake it off, and then
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  go back out and attempt it again.
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  And if that doesn't work, you do the same thing again and the
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  same thing again because you don't give up.
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  I'm not giving up on the garden because of this weed and because
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  of noseeums. I'm not letting that take over.
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  I just have to keep changing my approach.
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  All right, my friends, I'm going to go back at it, turn on my
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  blender, make a shake and go kick some garden ass.
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  All right, I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.