Pat & Sharon O'Toole: Summer into Fall

Time goes by. It was just a moment in time ago when we were waking up to rainy cool summer days. These have given way to a warm dry September. Go figure. We know that no matter how warm and dry September might be, we are well and truly headed for true fall. As my Dad likes to say, "We have two winters and only one summer in front of us." Of course, winter has its good points, so we'll enjoy those short days when they get here. In the meantime, summer and fall has sent us its gifts.

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Seamus with the pigs and a Border collie puppy
Home Ranch
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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Eamon making bales on the Mesa
photo by Pat O'Toole

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Bales in the Smiley Place
photo by Pat O'Toole

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Raking alfalfa on the Mesa
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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Eamon swimming with Marley and Kate
confluence of Battle Creek and the Little Snake
photo by Pat O'Toole

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Siobhan swimming
photo by Pat O'Toole

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Border collie puppies chasing Sadie
photo by Pat O'Toole

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Maeve and Seamus with Sadie
photo by Pat O'Toole

Heifers
photo by Sharon O'Toole

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Sandhill cranes on the alert
photo by Meghan Lally

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Russell Community Park, Dixon, Wyoming
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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