Sadly this little Anna's Hummingbird has lost a big part of 'her' territory! Or rather, of the vegetation, in his territory. We cut down several trees and removed others, all in preparation for the pool!

 

One of the Mexican Birds of Paradise shrubs/trees was moved to the front yard. It took all of the guys quite a while, to maneuver the whole thing through the narrow corridor on the side of the house to the front .. 

 

Success!

Than the guys had to jackhammer the rest of the concrete bench out of the ground ..

                                                             

After which all the rubbish and a whole lot of tree and shrub branches were removed, and than picked up by a guy who hauls trash away with his pick-up (for a flat fee of $50 per load). Good deal!

The house was equally 'trashed'. Remember this nice looking bathroom from when we moved in?

Well ... it now looks like this:

James and Jeron 'went to town' as they say, and demolished the whole thing (And let's not talk about the dust everywhere!! And I mean everywhere!! Gawd!

 

 

I guess this happens when you let 'trailer-trash' into your house!😁

And than all the cabinets were picked up by a lady who wanted them all (for free, yeah).
Oops, one of them wasn't removed yet, so ...                                               

Soon, this little wine cabinet in the dining room looked like this ...

   

Well, actually it wasn't so soon since those tiles of the back-splash didn't really want to cooperate, and it took a while before they hammered and chiseled them of the wall so the granite slab could be removed!

Besides all that, we had two other dentist appointments this week. Two, yeah!
We'd set up a second-opinion-exam at our local dentist, right here in Sun City, to see if they came to the same conclusion as the one at the Aspen Dental clinic, which actually turned out to be the case. We also wanted to compare prices, and they happen to come out slightly cheaper . OK, that was one.

  

That same afternoon, we drove all the way to Glendale for a visit to the Midwestern (University) Dental School.
Their prices are supposedly about half of what a regular dentists charge, but, like the hygienist school, work is slow and done be students.
First we had to be seen, to determine if we were eligible candidates. The work to be done needs to be not too difficult, but also not to easy, for the students to practice on.

                                             

Well, we were both approved, which means we now have to go back for our official exam, after which a treatment is going to be agreed upon.
Talking about a slow process! Oh well, if we can save a couple of thousand dollars, it will be well worth it!

 

Fortunately, we also had some fun times this week. We did some golfing, my first time at Poston Butte, the course we live on, and last Saturday we 'attended' the Poston Butte Golf Cart Christmas Parade!

All the local, big, parades have been cancelled of course, due to Covid, but since this one was 'parading' over the paths of the golf course itself, it was allowed.

 

 

Also, as luck would have it, they came right by our backyard, so we didn't have to go anywhere! Sweet!

James even set out a chair, and regally waved at all the carts that came by. It wasn't a long parade by all means, but all in all a very respectable number of 50 carts or so showed up!

 

 

It was a lot of fun and really nice to have so many people call out a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to us. 

It served the purpose to, despite everything, get us 'into the spirit'!