Falcon P & O

Photography and Oils

fiftystatebanana

Tuesday Views: 18 August 2026

2–3 minutes

LOCAL: “Almost Blowed Up”, by I.M. Tensionspan.

The previous owners of the house moved out. We were touring with the realtor when we noticed the stove was missing, a brand-new gas range oven with five eyes and digital display. I asked where the oven was and no one knew. So, a week later, I have “accepted credit” to buy an oven and lost hundreds of dollars. The delivery guys will not hook up the oven because they see no cut-off valve by the oven. I look, yep, no cut-off. Didn’t notice that.

So why wasn’t the house full of gas. Were we breathing in gas? Good thing I had an electrician service the house a couple of weeks prior to tie up live wires.

When the previous owners “ripped the stove out”, they opened the gas line. They took the cut-off valve along with the stove. Gas pours into the kitchen. She reportedly ran out of the house yelling she “effed up, she effed up, gas is filling up the house” and people were scrambling and shouting to find a way to shut it off. A neighbor ran over and cut the gas regulator on the outside and ran into the basement to cut the gas at the old cut-off valve. We called an emergency in to the gas company checked the lines and the tech was super nice enough to hook up and test the stove and water heater. So, a neighbor saved our house, and a Peoples Gas technician ensured we were safe there. Our house nearly blowed up. Little House All Over the Prairie.



So, our move is protracted nonsense eating an additional two weekends. We canceled the truck. We had a gas emergency at move-in. I miss painting.

I am moving, zero time available for this.

SCIENCE: without ethical leadership, science igenerates misery for the well-being of the increasingly few. Just a bunch of hot air. Consideration of gusts, blasts and prolonged velocity bursts in supersonic overpressured jets | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford Academic

Placing squishy slides under a dolly load makes it incredibly stable, even in the rain going off curbs and up ramps. Science you can use.

DRONE: My son gets to fly drones at his new middle school.

Art: Art theft is rife. It’s like that these days.

Leave a comment

Discover more from Falcon P & O

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Leave a comment