How cool! Probably the decomposing leaves provided the perfect rooting medium, and it got some moisture, and some light. If you tried this on purpose it would probably not work! Some people are able to just stick cuttings into the soil and the root - not me. The only time that worked for me was on Grandmother's Hat - I had been told it would, and stuck in 3 cuttings, which I did cover with plastic bottle covers, and all three rooted! Jackie

Sas95 thanks for your last post (and what a smile that table brought to my face!). I think that you summed it up perfectly, for me, about a reveal and asking, or NOT asking, for help or specific feedback. It's funny that we mention having a 'thick skin' when you post a thread but that thick skin goes both ways. If I say 'thanks but no thanks, I like it just the way that it is and I didn't ask for suggestions of change', well then, the person that offered me unsolicited advice should have thick skin too. I changed my username after having been a GW member for 10 yrs or so and due to changes in my life have posted MUCH less frequently on GW over the yrs since changing my that name. W/in the first few months of changing my username I got hammered by a more recent GW member because I posted links to décor related things and upcoming TV shows. I simply did not have time to post lengthier stuff but wanted to remain a part of GW as much as possible. I posted those links because I knew specifically that lots of other GWer's were very interested in those specific things. It was fairly ugly and clearly a case of open mouth, insert foot as many GWer's came to my defense that I was not some 'Spammer'. When I posted another project that I completed another member actually responded in the strangest way that they'd done and posted something similar weeks prior and nobody responded to their post. It was really uncomfortable for some members of which one finally posted in good spirit to sooth the other over that maybe I was inspired by the other. In fact I was not nor had I ever seen the other but what I appreciated was the GW member who had the sensitivity and common sense to try and appease the slighted member who went off in a huff. Look, I may post infrequently and post my reveals & projects more so than for help but hey, some folks here have helped me or have been interested in my projects for some time. And I post to threads that I can offer specific advice to when I am on. Sometimes there are a many, sometimes none that I can contribute to. And I've dreamt out loud on GW for ages and some of those dreams are finally coming to fruition so, yeah, I'm gonna post about them and it sounds like a fair amount of folks are going to potentially find that self-serving. That's ok. So many have been helpful and supportive during that time urging me to go for it. So 14yrs of being a member here and having had seeing it on both ends: 1: Being a very regular poster and posting often. and 2: Not being a regular and posting here and there in spurts. You do get treated differently. But whatever. I love decorating so, so very much that I won't ever stop posting here to some extent. Just make sure to not be slighted if I directly respond to unsolicited 'what I should change' advice. Now, I really need to find the link to the house on Houzz that started...

If she already has her bookmarks, passwords, etc. straightened out it's probably too late but... If you can locate her old Firefox profile on her Windows disk, you could probably copy her profile files to her new Firefox profile on her Linux disk. When I mount my Windows installation from within Linux, I find mine here: /media/chugger/Acer/Users/richard/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles (chugger is my Linux username, Acer is the label of the Windows partition, richard is my Windows username) If there's more than one profile directory, I would assume it to be the last created. On the running Linux installation you can just go to "Help" -> "Troubleshooting information" and Firefox will point it out to you. Alternately, you could just copy specific files from the old Windows Firefox profile to the new Linux Firefox profile. Bookmarks and history are stored in places.sqlite. Passwords requires two files: key4.db and logins.json https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data On my main computer, I put Linux on an M.2. nvme and moved Windows from a one terrabyte spin drive to an inexpensive 120 gig Kingston SSD. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N6JQS8C (It was $19.99 when I bought it) Windows boots quickly on the SSD. Probably as fast as my Linux does on the faster M.2. nvme. 120 gig is more than enough for a boot drive as long as you use another drive for data. If at some point in the future you get restless and want to play, and possibly impress your wife, you might stick a small SSD in her machine to use as a boot drive. And use the 500 gig spin drive for data. I just got a new bedroom computer. I had trouble getting remote desktop working. After a couple frustrating days I got it working and quickly backed it up. And... it felt good. Probably better than it would have if it had come easy. The bedroom computer, shown in the window looks almost exactly like the main computer but... that's just me. I like simple. :-)

Wildchild, I have one very similar to yours, I think. From the same time as well. Mine is too fragile now to have hanging on the tree so it stays on a shelf in my living room year round. I can remember it being hung on the tree when I was 3 or 4 and certainly for many years after that. At the time my mom stopped putting up a tree she gave me that ornament. I also have a plastic Santa and a Church that had bulbs on the inside of them. Know what I mean about those? They were from my childhood.