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  Well last week was definetly not been a quiet sedate one.  Let me start off with Sully's graduation photo from Canine Training School Sully ended up with a badly broken leg after his leg was caught in his long lead (10m) and he decided to chase a bird in our backyard.  :-(  Sully and I had been out gardening for a good 1/1/2 hours - me gardening and he sniffing, investigating, chewing on sticks and resting.  I was showing my husband what I had done in the garden and packing up when this happened. Other than the the initial yelp and cry in the yard, Sully didn't seem in extreme pain although he would not put pressure on his foot. As it was 5:30pm we thought we would see how he was in the morning.  Still the same not showing any signs of pain other than wouldn't walk on his leg.  So off to the vet at 9am, where she stretched his leg out -nothing, she moved his leg another way - nothing, then she put a little pressure on his knee and he casually turned ...

Two weeks and a lot of events. Lucky for us not much mess or work to do but we had freak winds and rain before a low was declared a cyclone.  So was at work (a school) when the 85km/hour winds happened.  Everyone was safe, just fun signing students out of school with their parents when we had no power or telephones.  The following day was a student free day at school while staff cleaned up the grounds with other contractors. At home thankfully we only had a lot of leaf litter and smaller branches that had come down, still three hours of work clearing that up.  Other people had trees.  We also lost our power but unlike the school that lost theirs for 1 1/2 days we lost ours for 2 1/2 days.  Again thankful, as the humidity wasn't around due to the rain and no sun and my brother who had electricity had a generator we got to borrow after a day of no power for our fridge and freezer. Last weekend I was very lucky to fly to Brisbane with work to learn more on a n...