So Much For A Quiet Evening At Home!
So I decide to leave work early to go get Mom and take her grocery shopping, only to to make a frightning discovery when I came into her door to her apartment (my moms apartment is attached to our house). I was struck by the very strong odor of propane gas! Holy Cow! I quickly rushed to get Mom & Morgan out of the house. I thought it was my Mom’s propane heater giving us issue so I turned it off. Then I preceded to turn off the propane tank and didn’t know which valve to turn so I called Bradley and he wasn’t sure either. So Brad calls our heating oil provider and they call me back and give me the low down for shutting the tank off. Meanwhile, Morgan and Mom are hanging out in the yard. So we open some doors to let the place air out.
I didn’t check the rest of the house because I wanted to get going to take mom grocery shopping before it got too late. Just as we leave Mom realizes Morgan was playing with the stove knobs earlier in the day and kept getting after her about it. So she decides to check the knobs on her stove to discover one was turned up but was never turned to light so the gas was really coming from mom’s stove! Needless to say, we’ve removed the knobs on the stove at this point. Oh, you are probably wondering why mom didn’t smell the fumes. Well she was the last to get our cold and could not smell.
So, the house was filled with gas fumes because naughty little Morgan was playing with the knobs! So I figure we better stay out of the house awhile and so we take off to go grocery shopping. Brad closed the stores early and rushed home to open the rest of the windows and let us know when the fumes faded.
After shopping and dinner at Green Peppers we got the ok to come home from Brad and the house was back to normal! The only sad ending to this story is Picaso, my mom’s parakeet, died during the night last night. Probably because of the gas fumes. Luckily Quincy was ok and so was Snicker.
The best news is our house did not blow up. Geez! We are so lucky! Let’s hope calmer days lie ahead!
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