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Season 4 - Episode 60 - The gifts in Spring Cleaning! · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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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  Yes, it's a Saturday morning so I can be out here a little bit
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  later to record. I don't have a session starting
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  in a few minutes and sun is coming up earlier, which just
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  makes my heart so happy. And the girls are coming out
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  their auto door right this moment, eating their breakfast.
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  So today we're talking about what I'm doing in the chicken
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  coop because this is part of my joy.
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  As all of you know, this is the place where I come out and I
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  just love doing anything with them, hanging out with them,
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  making things better for them, and I am reimagining their area
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  now. This is part of my spring
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  cleaning. In my world, I love to do the
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  spring cleaning more than anything.
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  There's nothing better to me than opening the windows with
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  that cooler air, but not cold air.
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  Getting things refreshed, ripping out old weeded gardens,
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  getting things cleaned up. And the coop is something where
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  I love to spread my imagination as much as I possibly can
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  because it, it's like a, a, a, it's like a little dollhouse to
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  me. I think I was, I was thinking
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  about that as I was getting ready to do the podcast this
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  morning. And I talk about it.
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  And I always loved my Barbies and I loved playing with Barbies
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  and creating different houses for them because at the time
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  when I had Barbies, the you don't really have a Barbie house
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  yet. It did come out.
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  But when I first started with them, you like played with your
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  Barbies. You figured things out and you
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  had to make things for them out of cardboard boxes or was ever
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  around. And I was forever doing that,
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  getting paint samples and sticking them all inside their
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  thing. And it's it's all about that re
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  imagination for me. So coming out here and being
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  able to do this for them is like having a dollhouse and coming in
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  and saying, OK, what can I do? So we had a few disasters
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  masters with their some of their structures, not their main coop,
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  but they had a playground and that got completely wiped out in
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  one of the big storms. It fell over and we have to work
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  on that. And they need a food.
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  I like to have their food inside and outside for them so that
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  they can come and get some if they want to.
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  And this is of course, all inside their run.
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  Their run needs some work because again, the storms kind
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  of damaged a lot. And we're just they're they they
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  don't have a shade coming into their coop.
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  Now, I know this sounds crazy, but if we live in a space where
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  they and it gets hot, bloody hot.
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  So they need to have some shade so that the whole place doesn't
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  fill up with heat. And we had some tarps, not
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  tarps, but they were made for like outdoor restaurants kind of
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  things like, you know, they put up those little wings that like
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  make shade for you. We had those, however, the storm
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  took them out. So we're going to build
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  something a little bit more permanent so that they can be
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  safe and not have those strings hanging around or cords hanging
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  around. We've got some really cool ideas
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  of what we want to do. And I'm also on the hunt,
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  believe it or not, for a claw foot bathtub.
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  Now you might be saying, what the hell is she doing with a
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  bathtub? Well, chickens love to dust
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  bathe. So I want to create an outdoor
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  spa for them with their bathtub filled with the kind of dirt
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  that they like to to bathe in. Put some ash in there.
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  Believe it or not, wood ash is super good for chickens and
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  keeping their feathers healthy. Again, it's all about knowing
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  what they need in order to thrive and see if they'll go in
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  the bathtub. Now, what's really funny about
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  that is people are thinking, well, why would they go in the
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  bathtub? Well, they're chickens and they
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  go in everything. So, so it's very easy to get
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  them to try new things if they're, if they're inquisitive
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  and I have a group of very inquisitive chickens.
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  So this is the plan. This is what we're working on.
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  And the reason I'm sharing all of this with you is to figure
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  out what's your spring cleaning project?
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  What's the thing that makes you feel like a little kid again
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  playing in a dollhouse? What makes you feel great?
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  Because if you do that, I promise you, Oh my Friends, Life
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  changes and you feel so awesome. So figure that piece out, Go
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  grab it, get it, get it underway because you will be incredibly
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  happy when you do. All right, my friends, that's
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  all I got for you today because I'm on my way to the hardware
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  store, so I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.