Chapter 13 - Friends to the Rescue

In the last 3 months, we have filled 9 construction trash dumpsters! That is a lot of garbage! By the time we are done, they may end up dedicating a portion of the city landfill to the "House of Lisa Lane" or maybe just "Coffey's Corner of Crap." We have had a lot of help from a lot of wonderful friends on the distruction and renovation of the house so far.

To help fill up a few of the last dumpsters, we enlisted the help of Steve's long-time friend, John Gilbert. He offered to bring his tractor and scoop and dump the rock and rubble that is just too heavy for us to move. John came over to Lisa Lane at 6:00am several mornings to clean up the debris scattered around the house. Steve and John wrapped chains around some of the trees and large cactus to rip them out of the ground. They demolished a few of the ugly brick planter boxes surrounding the front of the house.

The jacuzzi has been a perplexing and maddening problem since we bought the house because it is so large and so heavy and so wedged into the side porch. We tried saws and sledge hammers but nothing seemed to dent the relic until John chained the spa to his tracker and yanked it right off the porch. John has been a wonderful help!

So, we were stuck - we have a a large dumpster and a large jacuzzi but we can't get the jacuzzi into the dumpster. The Guamanian Friends to the Rescue! My friends from work, Joyce and Leina rounded up their men and helped us out. I couldn't believe how many of the men from Guam showed up to help us, including Joyce's Dad! (Apparently, she couldn't stop him from coming over!) There was Joyce's husband-Ron, Ron's brother-Jeff, Jeff's son-Junior, Joyce's niece's boyfriend-Frankie, Joyce's dad-Antonio and Leina's husband-Jay.

First, they debated on exactly what to do and then they decided it was best to go up and over.

Moving the dumpster to the side.
Testing the weight of the jacuzzi.












Going up... and going over!

Goodby to the turquoise jacuzzi and the end of an era. The last of the 70's has left the house!


Steve and I are so grateful for all the help that we have received on this project so far. Thanks to our incredibly wonderful friends, John Gilbert, The Guam Men, Stacy Slade and Steven Chidister!