That's because it's lambing season at their Floyd County farm, the busiest time of the year. Thor is the Lukes' Great Pyrenees guard dog, who looks just like any other animated ball of wool until he bolts from the flock and commences barking. Elsewhere in the county, flocks have been decimated by roving dogs that will worry, then chase and maul the sheep.
Coyotes also can be a threat.
But here on Simple Pleasures Farm, the thundering of Thor and lightning from an electric fence ensure that sheep may safely graze. The man knows whereof he speaks. He holds a master's degree in theology and served as pastor of a Christian church in Vermont for five years. Lambs arrive naturally each spring. 2000 B.C. The ancients of Palestine found sheepherding a rich metaphor for the spiritual life, so a visit to the Lukes' farm seemed fitting in this holy season of Easter and Passover.