Jon, bless you! You got me thinking about the irrigation system. I poked around at Amazon and for a modest price I can replace parts of it with shredded wires and the rest works just fine. That's a relief because a new system is pricey. If I replace the two I had with new wired pieces I can fiddle with the two chewed ones I have here - if I fix them, the irrigation unit will run up to four stations and I could expand the setup.

Sewing today, and I've been thinking about my friend's house - he set up a studio in the largest back bedroom and it's a lovely, dynamic room. It reminded me (energy-wise) of my sewing room - that is every bit as much a studio, for a different art form, as the one where he paints with watercolors. It gives me a new appreciation for the creative aspects of how we have coped during this COVID pandemic.