Author: Steve

  What is wrong with this picture?   Amount charged        $11,000 Medicare approved   $  1,000   What a strange game to claim ten times what you know you can collect.  Do they have to do that to get paid the right amount?  If they had charged $1,000, what they expect to collect, would Medicare have negotiated them down to $100?  If we didn’t have any insurance would this have cost us $11,000?  

  The Redstart I just sent pictures of, is a migrant warbler.   It only passes through Texas briefly in the spring and fall.   There’ll be a quiz on this later.    

  We’re still back and forth between Sandpipers and San Antonio.  We’re at a new place for the night; Quiet Texas RV Park.   San Antonio area map   It’s a charming little park.  Click over to satellite view on the map and zoom in, and you can see it.      

. . . . . . Danger.  Spider alert again. . . . . . . We can go years without seeing one.   Now we’ve seen two just a few weeks apart!   Driving down a remote sandy track.  There he was, just hanging out in the road. We had to drive around him when it was time to go on our way.   I put my glasses down close to him for perspective.   I guess he’s not quite as big as my head.   These tarantulas are pretty calm.  They aren’t aggressive to humans.  Mostly they just want to be left alone to eat insects and maybe the occasional small bird or reptile.  

  Gave us a good look.