Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel shares a video of life on the ranch nearly every week. Regular viewers of this feature understand that the topic may be a training session, getting familiar with a particular breed of dog, watching puppies at play, etc....
February 23 to March 1, 2012 Visible Planets: Morning: Mars and Saturn Evening: Venus and Jupiter The New Moon of February 21st took place just days after the Sun moved into Pisces, and gently gave birth to one of the most fertile and poignant lunar cycles of...
Editor's note: Just in case you have not puzzled it out, Mastering Security, is a twice-monthly blog by San Miguel County's Libertarian Sheriff, Bill Masters, who is also a published author. Masters has been Sheriff since 1980. Image of vehicle barrier at the U.S.-Mexico border...
The importance of play, especially for puppies, and making training fun are consistent themes when Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel discusses his philosophy of working with dogs. Watch this week's video as Jade, a young Australian Shepherd pup, enjoys a training session with...
February 16 to 23, 2012 Visible Planets: Morning: Mars and Saturn Evening: Venus and Jupiter The sense of belonging, the feeling of comfort, the familiar kitchen sink and rose-colored antique stove. My bunkhouse sanctuary, the Guadalupes, Lise's memorial wreath. My own bed, the crackling fire, the melting...
It’s the perfect day to pay homage to one of the greatest designers that ever lived. Verner Panton is known to all of us in the design community, certainly at Tweed, as one of the most influential and creative innovators of all time. Panton, (1926-1998), was...
Guys, you are in luck. You need not rush out and buy diamonds. Nor do you need to waste your hard-earned cash on roses, or worse, their cheap, very distant cousins, carnations. It turns out that what women really want for Valentine’s Day is time....
Ted Hoff sees a lot of dogs of all breeds and personalities in his work at Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel. I don't have another word other than "work", though it's obvious that Ted's work is really a labor of love. A situation that Ted sometimes sees...
February 9 to 16, 2012 Visible Planets: Morning: Mars and Saturn Evening: Venus and Jupiter By the time you read these words, I’ll be on my way back home to Colorado.. I’m writing this column two weeks in advance so I can email it long before it’s due....
It may be counter intuitive but criminals usually do not target expensive well kept homes. If they are driving around looking for a house to break into (and all criminal attacks have some degree of pre-attack surveillance) they act like predator animals looking for the...
