Pat & Sharon O'Toole: Babies on the ground: five species

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Cows and calves
Ames Field, Home Ranch

The view out our window gives every appearance of winter, yet spring is indeed in the air. We hear the calls of arriving Sandhill Cranes, who are an early harbinger of spring. Yesterday, I spotted a red-winged blackbird. The most definitive sign is the appearance of babies on the ground. They are not a surprise, since we know when we put in the bulls and the bucks, but they do lift our hearts. With babies on the ground, can green grass be far behind? Well, we hope not.

The puppies were a surprise, since I really thought I had Suzie confined in the horsetrailer on all the appropriate days, but that Bobby is a sly dog.

And of course, I cannot resist showing our readers the photos of our two newest grandchildren McCoy O’Toole, born on Halloween; and Tiarnan Lally, born on Valentine’s Day.
Now if it would only stop snowing.

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Cow with calves
Ames Field, Home Ranch

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Cows and calves
Corral, Home Ranch

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Ewes and lambs
Powder Flat

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Maeve and Seamus with bum lambs
Powder Flat

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Richar, Meghan & Tiarnan with lambs
Powder Flat

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Ovcharka/Akbash puppy
Salomon's camp, Red Desert

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Long suffering Suzie with three puppies
Home Ranch

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Eamon & McCoy

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Siobhan with baby chicks
Murdock's, Craig, Colorado
photos 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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