Colorado, more sheep than skiers?

I have a good friend who is the Executive Director of the American Sheep Industry www.sheepusa.org and I was fortunate enough to be invited to their house for dinner last night.  Pete's wife, Amy, knows how to cook lamb!  They know when I am coming to dinner that they had better buy extra, and they always do.

I grew up eating lamb, as I was born in New Zealand, where the sheep outnumber the people about 12 to one.    Of course, we always have an argument about which is better, Colorado lamb or New Zealand lamb.  I usually think it is which ever one I am eating at the time, but when Pete and Amy cook it, there is no competition.   They only eat American lamb, of course.   I was surprised to hear that Colorado has more sheep than any other state in the nation.  They are well hidden, but then I don't get to Meeker much!

There are lots of parts of Colorado that I haven't seen yet, but I have been to most of it at one time or another.  Colorado is a state with more variety of terrain than any I have been in.  We have everything from sand dunes to snowy mountains to arid plains and red rocks.  Of course, the mountains are my favorite!