my side of the conversation with my grandson

There is a picture of blanca as the first attachment.  There is a little movie of blanca goofing off on my bed as the second attachment.

Hi benjamin,

Do you know how to send emails?  I hope you can send me back an email so you can tell me what you think about my dog, blanca.  Blanca means WHITE in Spanish.  All her brother-puppies in the litter were solid dark-black.  So they called her blanca.  She was born the day before Halloween.  She is part dachshund dog, so maybe that makes her a holloweeny-weenie-dog!

I’m so funny….

Blanca is a little yappy-dog.  But we still like her an awful lot.  She is very small.  Her mommy is a bassett hound (the one with the real big floppy ears) and the weenie dog.  Blanca’s daddy is maybe the Chihuahua next door where her mommy lives.  So blanca is short and long and big eared with a very little bark.
She likes to play “go get it”.  She will chase down anything you throw and bring it back to you.  She don’t want to give it back to you.  Nope.  She wants you to wrestle her for it.  I don’t like it much, because she has sharp teeth.  And she isn’t very smart about them yet…  Once I threw a rock.  She brought it back to me.
How are your road-rash wounds and bruises?  Does it still hurt?  Do you look any better yet?  Lol
It scared me pretty good when I saw that picture of you all whomped up like that.  So I’d like to ask you to be careful moving around when you are up off the ground….  Just in case your face gets in your way another time.
Have you got back on the playground thing you fell off yet?  Do you want to?  I always heard that you should get back up on the horse you fell off and try again.  I think it means try it again.  I just want to add, be careful…. Just be smart.  That is part of careful.
I love you bunches ya know.  I don’t get to see you like I know you and I want to.  Your mom is good and posts pictures so I can keep you in my mind.  You have grown up a lot since you moved to arizona.  And you got older too.  And cuter too, when your face isn’t all squishy from the dirt up your nose.  ;0
Be good.  And be kind, because you are a good man.
Love, granzee