Well, I'm back!!  Andy took me to the community garden today while she worked on all those smelly herbs.  I had to stay in my crate in the shade cause she was busy, and it was too hot to just be tied up to a post.  Although I would rather run around barking barking barking and sniffing sniffing sniffing, I get calmed down in my crate, esp. if I can see Andy the whole time, which I could..  I took a little nap, it was such a nice day.  Then Andy went to this new place where I'd never been, and I started sneezing as soon as I walked in.  There were a bunch of nice ladies there getting things done to their nails, and sitting in strange chairs as another lady messed with their fur.  Andy put me in my crate again, and I felt safer there.  The ladies wanted to know my name, and when Andy said Bindi, one of them knew exactly where the name came from:  the little girl named after the alligator her dad loved, and the name then attached to me.  They were all cooing and fauning over me and wanted me to be let out of my crate, so Andy did, and I made a beeline to the door.  I wanted out of there in the worst way.  It was way too smelly in a bad way, and all that weird furniture freaked me out.  So back in the crate I went till we left.  Whew.  It was a tiring morning even though I didn't run around very much.

But i got to go to the dog park yesterday and play with Momo, my beagle friend, and I made friends with a Wheaton, but I can't remember her name.  I liked her right away.  There were lots of dogs, and of course I went to the gate a couple of times to greet the newcomers to make sure they were cool enough to come in, and I had to really get up in some of their faces cause they just didn't smell right to me.  Hey, it's my job.

Hi Everybody!  Guess where I am?  In Champaign, Illinois, at my Aunti Erin and Uncle Jason's house.  My cousin Ashley is here, and she's a pretty golden retriever mix, but she's not into playing with me.  But Molly came over, and she's just about my age and we've been running after one another in Erin's yard and chewing on rawhide treats and she's great fun.  It wasn't great fun being cooped up in the dog carrier thingie when we were on that big metal flying noisy machine and I had to be under the seat, but I'm better now with two other dogs and lots of dog loving humans around.  I also liked being at the AndFam house where all my human cousins were really really nice to me, and I liked licking the little kids who tasted so sweet and laughed when I licked them, and Ilia walked me and walked me and walked me and I got to chase the ball and woof woof bark bark it was really great.      

Bark bark I got a new stuffed squirrel, and I love it a lot!  I like to chase squirrels out in the yard and when I'm on campus, so having one to play with is way fun.  I'm hungry right now cause Andy forgot to bring my food into her Yale office today.  I'll just eat double when I go home.