. . . ends in April<\/p>\n
Work continues on the reconfiguration of the Big Brown Shed, as does pruning the wine grape vines over at White Heron. Thursday morning, we noticed \u201cweeping\u201d – – the first sign the vine is coming back to life.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Grape-vine-pruning-season.jpg\")
\nThe photo here (from the Web) is of an older cane \u2013 brown, rather than a cane from the last growth season \u2013 green interior. Not all cuts have produced weeping, but a few more warm afternoons should see that happen. We will also see buds start to enlarge and leaves start to emerge.
\nThis early growth is pretty, and delicate \u2013 the pruning near them has to be done with care or they can snap off. <\/p>\n
The wine from the 2021 harvest is still in large food-grade polyethylene tanks.
\nSome of the 2020 harvest has been bottled; most not yet. <\/p>\n
Crazy medical stuff.
\nLast week I needed prescriptions filled.
\nThe co-pays were:
\n$ 0.00;
\n$ 0.12;
\n$ 0.82;
\n$ 2.75<\/p>\n
All the paper, little plastic bottles, and inserted drying agents likely cost as much as the co-pays. There is something odd about this but I can\u2019t figure out exactly what.<\/p>\n
Nancy and I each got an envelope of paper from the Medicare folks. These usually make no sense and these were true to form.
\nNear the top there is: THIS IS NOT A BILL<\/p>\n
Then there is: Total you may be billed – – $17.79 In the end, there is no way to know exactly what was happening with this over the past 3 plus years. My statement looks like this: The statement is called a Medicare Summary Notice (MSN). The wind blew in the Kittitas Valley this week, so while I was away pruning grape vines, and the building crew couldn’t go climb on someone’s roof — they came and worked on the Big Brown Shed. John<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" . . . ends in April Work continues on the reconfiguration of the Big Brown Shed, as does pruning the wine grape vines over at White Heron. Thursday morning, we noticed \u201cweeping\u201d – – the first sign the vine is coming back to life. The photo here (from the Web) is of an older cane … Continue reading “April 2nd March Madness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-3fV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12519"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12527,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions\/12527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis statement if for a visit to the University of Washington on March 11, 2019. Repeat: March 11, 2019<\/b><\/font>.
\nBy way of explanation, there is this:
\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Madicare-UW-2019-Nancy-shoulder001.jpg\")
\nFootnote E is \u201cAfter your deductible and coinsurance were applied, the amount Medicare paid was reduced due to Federal, State, and local rules.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nHowever, they do include the statement: \u201cYou have now met your deductible for 2019.\u201d There are 2 pages of stuff I don\u2019t need, such as the a \u201crights\u2019\u201d statement in 12 different languages. <\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Madicare-UW-2021-John-wellness002.jpg\")
\nThis has the same sort of non-helpful information. It is for an annual \u201cwellness visit\u201d and a subsequent visit following a blood analysis. It mentions a personalized prevention plan of service (pps). If you can\u2019t draw a clock or remember 3 words for 10 minutes, maybe something happens. I haven\u2019t found out \u2013 yet!
\nI find it interesting that the Clinic (the facility) charged $258.00 while Medicare paid $303.78.
\nI guess someone in the Federal system thinks the service is worth more than do the folks that actually provided it. <\/p>\n
\nI can switch from a paper MSN every 3 months to an electronic statement (eMSN) and have such information every month. That would be 4 times the garbage every year, and easier to ignore. Thrilling.<\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Big-Brown-Shed-firewise-siding-in-progress-4-1-2022.jpg\")
\n In another work session, I’ll have to change the name.
\n
\nFrom the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n