Laden with stone pack,
Mr. Sandman waits for the call
From Santa. He’ll fly!
Laden with stone pack,
Mr. Sandman waits for the call
From Santa. He’ll fly!
Posted by Ladder Ranch on December 24, 2019 in Events, Nature and Wildlife, Poetry
Tags: Christmas, Sandman Mountain
Patrick and Sharon O'Toole are ranchers in the Little Snake River Valley on the Wyoming-Colorado border. They represent the fourth generation on the six-generation family ranch. The O'Tooles raise cattle, sheep, horses, dogs and children on their high country ranching operation. The transhumance operation stretches from north of Steamboat Springs, Colorado to Wyoming's Red Desert.
Pat has served in the Wyoming House of Representatives, the Western Water Policy Commission, and is currently President of the Family Farm Alliance, representing irrigators and water users in the western United States. He is active with several conservation and agricultural organizations.
Sharon is a writer and poet. She writes extensively on western issues, and the relationship between landscape, animals and people. She is widely published as an author, essayist and editorial commentator.
Pat and Sharon have three children. Their daughter, Meghan and her husband Brian Lally, live on the ranch with their children, Siobhán, Seamus, Maeve and Tiarnán. Meghan has also served on the Wyoming Board of Agriculture and the Environmental Quality Council, She and Brian are active in community service.
Daughter Bridget lives in Phoenix with her husband, Chris Abel, where she works in health care communications. Chris works in the food distribution business.
Son Eamon and his wife Megan live on the ranch with their sons, McCoy and Rhen. Eamon is a horseman and natural resource manager, and Megan is a flight nurse. Eamon is a member of the Wyoming Beef Council and is active in the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
The blog traces the activities and life on the ranch, from the mundane to the fabulous.
Karen
December 30, 2019 at 6:40 PM
Love this picture Sharon. Always knew it as Sugarloaf when we branded our calves at the base of it(we called the flat Readers Basin
Ladder Ranch
December 30, 2019 at 10:47 PM
On the maps, it is officially Sugarloaf. I’ve always known it as Sandman Mountain, but some folks call it Santa Claus or even Christmas Mountain.
Patty
January 2, 2020 at 10:34 AM
I have always know it as Santa Clause mountain informally, formally as Sugarloaf.