What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

Made sugar cookies for Xmas. Family tradition. Family recipe passed down. No powdered sugar in this one.

 

[akroberts1085]

I decided to get the pumpkin picked today and it weighs about 21 pounds

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

The weather has been unbelievably gorgeous here for the Midwest. Close to 60. The ground isn't even frozen yet. Been putting my chickens in the garden and letting them destroy my deep leaf covered beds. I can't help it. They have quite the conversations in there comparing the treasures they dig up. By Sunday, we have high winds and wind chills in single digits. Be a good day to peruse seed catalogs and recover from all Christmas family activities.

 

[chickengr]

I am struggling with Giant Marconi peppers. The peppers only reach 4 inches before turning color; I was thinking it was the seeds, so I ordered some seeds from another vendor and will find out if that was the case.

peppers don't like heat and poor soil. if you can use animal manure and keep them in partial shade it might help. they like water too.

I had 2 rows of the same peppers. the row with more manure produced excellent plants and fruits. the other one had underdeveloped plants with max 10 in fruits (even smaller). all seeds were mine from the very same pepper.

 

[chickengr]

As long as you don’t need insurance, it is cheap to go without, but… if you do need to go to a hospital , bills can easily reach over 200000€ a colleague of my husband had a stroke, was in intensive care and after that rehabilitation, bill was over 200000€, was he glad he was insured, nobody plans on going to the hospital , it just happens

don't you have free hospital for people in bad condition (stroke, cancer, etc.)? we have that. they cannot go to the regular doctors but they can have hospital treatments.

and greece is considered a poorer country in EU.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

It depends on what kind of insurance you have…if you are a regular employee, you have regular( almost free) health insurance, you only pay a minimum of fee for medicine or hospital stay (10€/day for a maximum of 14 days, if (!) you are privately insured , you have to pay up front, but get most of your money back, but…private health insurances hate paying out money, like every insurance, so getting back your money can, in some cases, take over a year…and sometimes they don’t pay certain thing, cos it hasn’t been approved with them, or there a cheaper option, whatever, if you are young, private insurance is cheap and has a lot of benefits, the older you get, the more expensive it becomes , and after a while, you are no longer allowed to switch to a regular health insurance…and of course a hospital is obligated to treat you, if you have a serious condition, but they want their money within 1 week of sending the bill, no rate paying allowed, some private insurances settle the bill directly with the hospital, but usually, most people are only partly privately insured, the rest is covered by the insurance of their employer ( usually civil servants) but the government also hates paying out big bucks, so they don’t cover all costs and also take a loooong time to check if the bill is correct

 

[Rick589]

Not having any health issues at 67 and only seeing the doctor for yearly checkups it would be cost effective for me to have a Medicare Advantage plan. However, Going with standard Medicare, supplemental G, and a drug plan cuts out all the if’s and and’s of who pays what and when. Costs me more but I know what to expect…..and I like that.

 

[dirkandlorie]

Not having any health issues at 67 and only seeing the doctor for yearly checkups it would be cost effective for me to have a Medicare Advantage plan. However, Going with standard Medicare, supplemental G, and a drug plan cuts out all the if’s and and’s of who pays what and when. Costs me more but I know what to expect…..and I like that.

My way of thinking...... In good health now, you probably won't have any issues til you're 72. That supplement you're paying for must be at least 500 a month. 500 x 12=6000 a year. 6000x 5 years= 30,000. Peace of mind must be priceless, lol.
No disrespect intended here, never been to a doctor and never will, so sometimes I'm curious about the system so many indulge in. Why not just wait til health starts to falter, then change your insurance for all the bells and whistles?

 

[WthrLady]

The weather has been unbelievably gorgeous here for the Midwest. Close to 60. The ground isn't even frozen yet. Been putting my chickens in the garden and letting them destroy my deep leaf covered beds. I can't help it. They have quite the conversations in there comparing the treasures they dig up. By Sunday, we have high winds and wind chills in single digits. Be a good day to peruse seed catalogs and recover from all Christmas family activities.

Should only be about 53 tomorrow and STILL foggy as all get out until late afternoon. Now BOXING DAY, that'll be a stunner! In the 60s.

So foggy here now, we're down to 200 FEET of visibility.

 

[Rick589]

My way of thinking...... In good health now, you probably won't have any issues til you're 72. That supplement you're paying for must be at least 500 a month. 500 x 12=6000 a year. 6000x 5 years= 30,000. Peace of mind must be priceless, lol.
No disrespect intended here, never been to a doctor and never will, so sometimes I'm curious about the system so many indulge in. Why not just wait til health starts to falter, then change your insurance for all the bells and whistles?

Actually my Medicare, supplemental, and drug cost will total just a tad over $400.00/ month for ‘26. Advantage plans could probably be had for $0.00 monthly premium or near that but jumping through hoops is not an activity I’m interested in. This is one reason all the open enrollment Medicare Advantage plan commercials irritate me, you don’t get something for nothing.