Tanner Ray Grandstaff, three words that when combined create a person, an identity. A tanner works with hides and turns it into leather by some process that is completely foreign to me. I have no experience with working with leather other than occasionally cleaning the leather in my car. I am actually the least likely person to be working with hides or anything that has to do with dead animals due to the fact that I have never been hunting. I feel as if I am a black sheep having grown up in Arkansas and Oklahoma the and every time one of my friends asks me about hunting, I just try to change the subject as soon as possible, otherwise I might be ridiculed and labeled as a city boy. A ray is a beam of light shining from the sun and that is the