As she scrubs the walls of a friend's Granite Falls home, Jackie Wardlow asks herself, "How do you get 10-year-old grease off a wall?" Wardlow needs a lot more than elbow grease to take on the situation she is currently confronted with. "I was horrified," she said. "The conditions were deplorable." Just before Christmas, Clay Mendenhall went into the hospital for a broken shoulder. He asked Wardlow, his longtime friend, to look after his dog. "If he hadn't asked me to look after Ozzie, none of this would've happened," Wardlow said. What she discovered inside the home brought her to tears. "After seeing his place, every morning I'd just sit there and cry because I let my friend sit here at his own demise and I didn't even notice," Wardlow said. Once Wardlow got past the front door, that demise was evident. "There were spiders everywhere," said neighbor Phyllis Arnold. "The smell was atrocious."  Maggots squirmed in the overflowing kitchen sink. The refrigerator was filled with rotting food. The cupboards were filled with jars of food so past the expiration dates that they actually exploded. The furnace hadn't worked for two years and there had been no hot water since May. READ THE FULL STORY: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/granite-falls-man-neighbors-renovate-his-home/281-a2cc1ec6-6dac-4025-a7bb-69ff2cf7124f