Things got moved around so I could set the mini greenhouse frame at the window, and the new seedlings have been shifted out of the aquarium greenhouses.

Also, we’ve got a massive jade tree in a large, square, self watering pot that is very awkward to move! And it has to be moved in order for the shelf it’s on to be moved, because the shelf cannot be moved with the weight of the jade tree on it. Aside from the weight of shelf and plant together, it sinks deep into the 1970’s shag carpet! 😂

It’s not even our biggest jade tree.

Anyhow.

Here is the new set up.

On the top shelf, we’ve got the mulberries next to the coffee tree. The yellow onions are in the round tray beside them. The shallots are underneath, and the eggplants and hot peppers on the bottom. The red onions got shifted into the large aquarium greenhouse for a little while, and I swear, in the space of an hour or two, I could already see more onions sprouting, and more green, rather than almost white.

The thermometer in the living room is pretty consistently at 17C/63F. I think, in the evening, I’ll run the little space heater for a while. That big picture window may be triple pane, but it still gets pretty cold beside it at night!

After getting that done, I made a run into town where I picked up my new card reader. I can now finally upload trail cam files again. 

I really don’t like Windows 11.

Unfortunately, as I tried navigating through Windows Explorer, it kept “not responding” on me. Just as frustrating was navigating to where the pictures fold should have been, but it’s not there.

Turns out it’s now in OneDrive. Windows 11 wants images to be uploaded to the cloud. Which I absolutely do not want to do.

I ended up managing to upload them to the new external hard drive, until I can figure out where I can set up a folder for my image and video files.

I haven’t been doing much in trying to set the new computer up with what I had in my old system. Partly because it feels rather overwhelming – and I’ll probably have to link up with my old computer to get some of the most recent data. The other part is learning the differences in Windows 11. Even cut and paste is suddenly a pain. 

My husband, sweetheart that he is, fussed with it for a while, and it seems my suspicions are correct. There just isn’t enough RAM. Not that there was much choice in the matter. When researching a new computer, I noticed they all seemed to have much less RAM and must less memory on the hard drive. Granted, I got my other computer more than 10 years ago, so it’s been that long since I’ve even looked as this stuff, but it seems most computer are 8G of RAM with 500G hard drives. If you want a terabyte, the price jumps dramatically. 

It’s that lack of RAM that is making it a pain to navigate in Explorer. Yeah. The RAM is already almost completely used up.

The good news is, this system has extra slots, we have room to add more RAM.

Not that we can do that anytime soon, as far as the budget goes, but at least it’s an option.

Meanwhile, my husband went looking through task manager to see what was running that could be making the machine more inefficient. Windows 11 has a lot of stuff running in the background, that’s for sure! 

Ah, well. I’ll get used to the new user interface. 

For now, I will enjoy thinking garden thoughts, while the snow starts to fall more heavily outside.

The Re-Farmer