Hello fellow michigander! I use a heated dog dish in the winter. It's not perfect, but it works pretty well. The only drawbacks are that the water tends to get dirty and also when it's really cold the relatively warm water evaporates really fast so you have to refill it daily. My coop is not...
Agreed. When I consume social media I try to stick with stuff that has a positive effect on me. I want to learn, or laugh, or both! It doesn't always happen that way, but that's the goal and it usually works. I've never used TikTok but the stuff I've seen from friends and the internet...wow.
As far as favorites:
All and any of James Herriot's books
All and any of Gerald Durrell's books
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Northwest Passage
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (autobiography)
I'll start. I'm currently reading Guns of the South, by Harry Turtledove. I'm actually almost done, sadly. It's a really riveting alternate history book on the American Civil War. In the middle of the war, the southern armies are given AK-47s by a group of time travelers. With their help, the...