Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

spent morning trying to figure out son's ER visit bills. What a rip off. Apparently ER doctor and the CT scanning (radiology) people are all 3rd party, and they bill in addition to the hospital, but seem to include same items as each other. Dr was there about 5 minutes to put in stitches, billed over $3200. I'm expecting separate bills from each nurse, and the lady at the front desk any day now....... Wonder if the custodian bills separate also, you know to clean the place.... Anyways, the DR who billed separate, did not go thru insurance. They took the money that my auto insurance paid and they said they "retired the bill". This means they probably got more than they should have. Trying to decide to leave well enough alone, or have them go thru insurance.
Still trying to decide if hospital bill for CT scans is same as the radiology bill for CT scans. seems they both want to bill for the same thing also. United health seems to think they are separate, but why?

Going into town with my wife, then make a run to an orchard in PA.

 

[sodamo]

70°F Ang 1.3 inches rain. Our hurricane is coming in.
Forecast is we may see 10 inches.

That will put a damper on things outside. I do need to resupply Diesel. Glad I got that work in yesterday.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Looking4new]

BEF, since when is double dipping allowed by hospitals?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF, since when is double dipping allowed by hospitals?

Since they make it so confusing that no one knows what’s being billed.

 

[kenmbz]

We have caught them double charging before and had everything go back to the insurance company to sort that out.
We just asked them to go through it and give us detail on each item, and like magic a few disappeared.

Xrays show no bone movement.
But the pain is coming from where one of the 2 screws are located.
So do I deal with the pain and hope no more soft tissue damage, or see the bone dr. to have the screws that have been in the bone for 15 years removed.......

Stay safe David/Sodamo 10+ of rain is quite a bit...

On the way to Philly along the waterfront they have been knocking down the old factories and putting up a massive amount of apartments. Goes on for a mile or two and very dense.

I am through Philly every few weeks and it's changing quite a bit between trips!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good news on the tractor David. Who would have thunk.
Food in TX sounds good to me. Just had a burrito bowl from chipotle.
Told my wife, when you pay for hair cut, do you get separate bill from the salon for use of the chair, mirror and AC? Just like the hospital bill.

 

[Looking4new]

BEF, the same could be used for getting a service done on your car. Garages would go out of business if that happened.

David, do you know what the hurricane said to the coconut tree?

Hang onto your nuts honey, this aint no ordinary blow job.
Stay safe buddy.

 

[rswyan]

76F and sunny @ 13:15, heading up to around 80F for the day's high. Low this morning was 52.5F.

Unloaded items from van, parts washer and bracket moved up to the shop, cart set in front of garage (until I can clear some space to move it inside) and pipe unloaded on to a pallet:

After that I headed back over to pick up that large metal frame. It was heavy and getting it loaded in the van was a PITA due its length. I'm sure getting it out will be a real treat. Also grabbed some rubber floor mats which I had forgotten about.

Got mowing the front yard after I got back, got that all done.

Then started down here around the house. Got the back all mowed and some of the west side done.

Enough to scatter some seed on the ground for ground feeders and refill the hopper feeder. Still need to refill the suet feeder.

Picked a good sized zucchini.

Refueled the Stihl FS 66 and took it over the (trans)planting strip for forsythias and started cutting down the weeds ... which had gotten away from me and were over 4' tall. Got from the southern end up to the telephone cut down, which is probably about 1/3 of the entire length. Probably do some more on that this evening once the sun gets low enough for the area to be in shade.

Checked the live trap and it was empty, suspect the bait has been cleaned out and it did not trip. Need to check that today and re-bait it and make sure it will trip. May have to modify the trip rod to make it a little shorter.

Have one bill to schedule for payment today.

Probably run the soaker hoses in the garden and collect whatever veggies are ready.

Woman has decreed that we should get rid of the strip of grass in between the flower bed and garden and maybe put the raised beds in that location. Can't argue with that, since it reduces the amount of grass that has to be mowed.

Top off fluids in the Kubota and see if I can't make that rescreen pile disappear before it gets any hotter.

This coming week summer temps will be back ... with a vengeance:

Going to be looking for a lot of jobs in the shade.

Hope everyone is having a decent Friday ...

 

[daugen]

warming up outside, got the garden all weeded and trimmed, couple of small wagon loads of junk.
took some water out to the pussywillow tree so it doesn't throw a fit this time when I leave...

RS, that's some serious pipe. Remind us what you are going to do with it? Could support a building.

time for a rest/nap.

 

[m7040]

Mowed around the house for a couple of hours and ran into the groundhog that was not able to outrun the ZT. Not much left of the poor thing but at least it went quick