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cherydactyl's younger daughter is at camp this week at the nature center near us. That being the case, they came by after camp yesterday. All four kids went to the school playground (I have no idea if they rolled down the hill. At least, nobody got sick) while Scott, cherydactyl and I leveled up characters for Scott's Babylon 5 game. cherydactyl had three levels to do. Her character is complicated because two of her classes are prestige classes that Scott found in a supplement she doesn't have and adapted for his game.

Scott plans to take the kids bowling today. Originally, he planned to buy them pizza at the bowling alley, but Cordelia's friend's mother sent food-- chicken spaghetti and a dessert of some sort. We need to eat that today. Well, I won't because tomato sauce is bad for me, but everybody else will.

Right now, the kids are playing Metroid Blast (at least, I think that's what it's called). It's loud, and they keep accidentally shooting each other. I watch sometimes, but the map is so confusing. I have no idea how they find anything.

We watched Agents of SHIELD last night. I'm trying to imagine how that episode would have been for anyone who didn't know anything about the Captain America movie (I spoiled myself thoroughly because I like to know what people are talking about and because I won't be able to see the movie until it's out on DVD) or who was trying to remain unspoiled for the movie.

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Scott did the work on the raised beds yesterday. He transplanted the rose bush again (we moved it last fall because we thought the raised bed where it was would be dug up by the sewer people). Time will tell if it has survived. If it didn't, we'll replace it. Of course, I'm not sure we're taking care of it right. I think it needs to be cut back or needed to be in the fall. I have only the vaguest idea of how to care for a rose. My usual method for dealing with plants is benign neglect. I do a spurt of work early in the year and then water occasionally.

Scott dug up the dead plants. I decided to get rid of the sage plants rather than fuss with trying to move them. They'd sort of been dumped, willy-nilly, and were big lumps in awkward positions. Then he spread some dirt in the medium sized raised bed. I think he put in six bags. It wasn't enough. I thought it might not be.

We need some mulch, too, to go around the raised beds. I had ground cover on one side (ajuga), but the sewer line guys buried it in dirt. I'm hoping it will come back-- ajuga is tenacious-- but I can't assume that it will.

I need to cut back the winter savory severely. It's trying to take over the big raised bed, and a lot of it is ugly, bare stems. Hopefully, I can chop it back without damaging it. I'm just not sure when to do it. I suppose I could dig it up and replace it with a younger plant, one that's a bit tamer. I just hate to kill a healthy plant.