Pat & Sharon O'Toole: Halloween in the country

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Bridget (with Ralph), Sharon, and Siobhan--off to feed the rotting jack-o-lantern to the pigs
Home Ranch
photo by Pat O'Toole

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Halloween treat
photo by Sharon O'Toole

It has been a stormy week, so there has been much discussion about cold weather Halloween costumes. Many years the kids and their costumes are covered up by coats, hats, boots and gloves. Several solutions can be employed. The child can go as a skier, a hunter, or some other being that calls for heavy clothing. One Wyoming native offered that his mother always dressed him as a "fat ghost"--she'd throw a sheet with eyeholes over his winter wear. Luckily, Halloween marked the start of a warming trend. It was 35 degrees instead of twenty. Here's some photos from our Halloween. Bridget and Chris came from Denver to help Siobhan, 5, Seamus, 3, and Maeve, 1, trick or treat in Baggs, 25 miles away, and points in between.

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Bridget, Chris, and Siobhan

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Seamus, before the dragon costume

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Maeve" Cow Girl coming...

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...and going

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About Pat & Sharon O'Toole

Pat and Sharon O’Toole are ranchers in the Little Snake River Valley near Savery, Wyoming, right on the Colorado-Wyoming border. They raise cattle, sheep, horses, dogs and children. Pat “immigrated” from Florida in 1970. He attended Colorado State University, where he met Sharon when both worked for the campus newspaper. Sharon grew up on their ranch, where they live and work with her father, their daughter, son and granddaughter (soon to be grandchildren!). Pat is a “water buffalo” and has served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1986-1992), on the President’s Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission, and is the current President of the Family Farm Alliance, which advocates for farmers, ranchers and irrigators. Sharon is an author, poet and journalist. She writes extensively on Western issues and is a columnist for “The Shepherd” magazine. Pat and Sharon are the parents of three children: Meghan, 27; Bridget, 26; and Eamon, 20.

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