https://gryphonshafer.com en-us Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:51:00 +0000 Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:51:00 +0000 https://gryphonshafer.com/blog/2015/07/20/always-and-eventually Aviation, Personal Log: Ever since I first saw it, I’ve loved the movie Always, the last of the great 1980s movies from the Spielberg, Kennedy, Marshall production team of Amblin Entertainment. There’s a lot to love in this gem. You can’t go wrong with the likes of Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, and Audrey Hepburn. The story behind the story is almost as cute, campy, and compelling as the movie itself. Aviation Personal Log 1 Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:30:00 -0700 https://gryphonshafer.com/blog/2015/07/17/im-a-beekeeper-now Personal Log: Back several months ago, perhaps as early as January or February, my wife suggested I consider taking a beekeeping class. Both of us have been mildly interested in bees for a while, and I love honey on or in just about everything (as do my children), so it seemed like a good idea. For about a month and a half, every Tuesday evening I drove up to Silverdale to attend a beginning beekeeping class. I bought equipment sufficient for two hives, figuring that since I didn’t know what I was doing per se, having two hives would give me two data points so I’d be slightly less driving blind. Then on one particularly sunny Saturday in April, my pre-ordered two packages of bees arrived. Personal Log 1 Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:45:00 -0700 https://gryphonshafer.com/blog/2015/04/14/avoiding-the-traffic Aviation, Personal Log: Sunday after church, my family drove directly to the airport just around the corner and loaded into our airplane. We had planned a flight up north to the Skagit Regional Airport because I thought we might be able to sneak in a preview of the Heritage Flight Museum before their official opening in a couple weeks. Aviation Personal Log 1 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:15:00 -0700 https://gryphonshafer.com/blog/2015/03/14/flying-is-better-than-driving Aviation, Personal Log: If you know me (and if you’re bothering to actually read this blog, there’s a good chance that’s true), you know I’m an aviation “enthusiast,” to put it mildly. I won’t publicly admit I’m crazy about aviation because the FAA might ground me for mental health reasons, but I’m sure you can draw your own unscientific and unproven-in-a-court-of-law conclusions. I love to fly. I love to fly because you can’t beat the views. I love to fly because it takes skill and concentration but is simultaneously exciting and relaxing. I love to fly because I can take day-trips to places it would take others a weekend to make. Aviation Personal Log 1 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 17:30:00 -0700 https://gryphonshafer.com/blog/2015/03/12/crash-on-longlake Aviation, Personal Log: The road to a dormant blog is paved with good intentions. I had all sorts of opportunity over this last year to write, but something or another more important always usurped priority. Even more so, I had no shortage of topics with which to opine. There were many aviation trips, numerous adventures with my family, and a plethora of ideas to investigate. One such family adventure involved one of the shortest aviation trips we’ve ever taken and raises to mind some ideas about natural overreaction as a standard response. Aviation Personal Log 1 Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:45:00 -0700