Three wise men. Three birds
Ray Grills is one of the volunteers at Resurrection House. He is there three or more mornings each week, always the first to arrive at about 7:00 a.m.
Ray is the breakfast man. He makes the coffee; sets out the cereals, milk, juices and foodstuffs ready for our 8:30 a.m. start. He is usually around until 11:00 a.m.
Ray has been volunteering at Res. House for more than 20 years. He started volunteering the very week that Res. House opened.
Ray is a retired DuPont chemist - he worked on the Manhattan project. He is a widower.
Ray Grills is 92 years old.
His son Dennis Grills lives in Charlotte, N.C. Even as I write he is volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in Costa Rico.
And Ray has a grandson, Dr. Brian Easton. Today he is in El Salvador working as a volunteer in a Health clinic.
Like father, like son, like grandson!
It’s been raining all day - thank goodness. I saw a hawk (not sure which kind) swoop into our lake and fly off with a fish in her/his talons.
But hawks are no match for crows. Crows operate in gangs. Earlier this year I saw 20 or so of them as they harassed an hawk until it left the area.
But they too get their comeuppance. I watched two small mockingbirds (our State bird) drive off a group of crows during last spring’s mating season!
A new understanding of "giving someone the bird!"
Ray is the breakfast man. He makes the coffee; sets out the cereals, milk, juices and foodstuffs ready for our 8:30 a.m. start. He is usually around until 11:00 a.m.
Ray has been volunteering at Res. House for more than 20 years. He started volunteering the very week that Res. House opened.
Ray is a retired DuPont chemist - he worked on the Manhattan project. He is a widower.
Ray Grills is 92 years old.
His son Dennis Grills lives in Charlotte, N.C. Even as I write he is volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in Costa Rico.
And Ray has a grandson, Dr. Brian Easton. Today he is in El Salvador working as a volunteer in a Health clinic.
Like father, like son, like grandson!
It’s been raining all day - thank goodness. I saw a hawk (not sure which kind) swoop into our lake and fly off with a fish in her/his talons.
But hawks are no match for crows. Crows operate in gangs. Earlier this year I saw 20 or so of them as they harassed an hawk until it left the area.
But they too get their comeuppance. I watched two small mockingbirds (our State bird) drive off a group of crows during last spring’s mating season!
A new understanding of "giving someone the bird!"
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