Dead Mouse or Propane Leak???

About a week ago we started to smell something out of the ordinary in our house. We decided it was a dead mouse in the duct work. Nothing is better than telling visitors to your house never mind the smell it is just a dead mouse we haven't been able to locate yet. :0 Of course we try to mask the smell with candles or spray but it ends up smelling like a mouse has died in the forest. After tearing apart some of the duct work trying to locate the smell and me and Chandra running around the house with our noses stuck in every crack saying I think it smells worse over here, we decided we were not going to find the cause of the smell. Thursday, after spending the day in the ER on Wednesday, as I was sitting in my chair half loony from the drugs I thought that smells more like propane today. We shut off the gas and called our propane company. They came out and checked and sure enough we have a leak. No we have leaks. The guy who installed the pipe did not use the right dope to seal the threads of the piping and after a few years they all have began to leak. The propane company completely shut off our gas until we have it fixed. Which means no furnace or water heater. With the wood stove we don't use the furnace much anyways so that's no big deal but I like to have hot water. We have a electric hot water heater that runs the mother-in-law suite, so I decided to hook up a hose from the washing machine and run it to the bathroom so we can have hot water to bathe. Nothing says class like a 25 foot garden hose running through your living room and kitchen to the bathroom.