Pat & Sharon O'Toole: June 2010 Archives

June 21, 2010

June scenes

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Spring grazing for the yearling ewes
Badwater
Carbon County, Wyoming

June is a crazy busy month for us. With the sheep, we are lambing, then docking, then trailing. With the cattle, we are branding, moving onto the Forest permits and riding, riding, riding. In addition, we have some yearling heifers. Yearlings are another ball game from cows and calves, since they are basically rowdy teenagers. Our "big girls", surrogate granddaughters Sasha and Bahnay, returned this year to help with all the June work. Here are some photos from all the June activities.

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George siphoning water for Simeon's camp
Badwater

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Pat, sorting
Home Ranch

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Hamp ewe with black lamb
State land pasture, Cottonwood
Carbon County, Wyoming

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Eamon, Maeve & Meghan
Home Ranch

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Siobhan on Chief
Home Ranch

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Maeve on Hickory, Pat on Plata
Home Ranch

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Bahnay on Outlaw
Home Ranch

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Sasha on Buck
Home Ranch

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Guard dog puppies
Home Ranch

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Sheep at Government corrals
Medicine Bow National Forest
Carbon County, Wyoming

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Siobhan & Pepe
Government corrals
photos by Sharon O'Toole

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June 12, 2010

Heifers and bulls

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Eamon moving a Gelbvieh bull
Homestead Ranch

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Megan bringing up the Hereford bulls
Home Ranch

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Heifer--about to meet the bulls (low birth weight) for the first time
photos by Sharon O'Toole

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June 7, 2010

Dandelions: must be spring

Dandelions
Mesa, Home Ranch
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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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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