Cerridwen

  I have alot of people ask me what Cerridwen means, and truthfully I knew the story, but I had no short version, , , so here ya go, , 
short version,     Cerridwen

Cerridwen ("White Sow" or "White Crafty One") is a Welsh Goddess of magic and transformation, Who keeps the cauldron of inspiration. Her son Afagddu was so horribly ugly She set to making a brew of wisdom for him, to give him a quality that could perhaps overcome his ugliness. Every day for a year and a day She added herbs at the precise astrological times, but on the day it was ready the three magical drops fell instead on the servant boy, Gwion Bach, who was set to watch the fire. Instantly becoming a great magician, the boy fled from Her wrath, and as She pursued him they each changed shape--a hound following a rabbit, an otter chasing a salmon, a hawk flying after a sparrow--until finally the boy changed to a kernel of wheat, settling into a pile of grain on a threshing-floor. Cerridwen, becoming a black hen, found him out and swallowed him down.

Nine months later she gave birth to Taliesin, who would be the greatest of all bards.

Cerridwen signifies inspiration from an unexpected corner. Plans may go awry; projects may change. Do not be too quick to hold a project to its course ~  instead let it take its shape as it will.

boom chakuh lokka boom

As of this coming weekend, Cerridwen will be ours. Our responsibility, our destiny, our freedom, our dream come true. Let the games begin!!!!
  The freezer finally got here, the cap'n is hard at work finishing putting it in. It fits perfect. I can feel the cool air from the fan, and it is cooling the ice box fantastically. We put everything inside, and the fan is running, and it shuts off and starts again. It feels pretty cold in there.
   I have the trim all the way around the boat, sanded~ing, chipping, the top of the rub rail on the outside, almost ready to start revarnishing the teak, the layers, and layers, like Ogres, and onions. We are also doing the sheerline, the stripe above the rubrail, blue.

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Annual Boat Show

This years Boat Show was so different for us. We are boat owners, looking at stuff for outfitting her to keep us safe on all of our adventures. Soooo much to look at, touch, listen to,sit on, pick~up, shake, try on, taste, and mull over. We mostly talked about all the stuff we should be sanding. The after~party was fun, we ran into the couple from Medford, that we sat with last year. While we were talking, we found out that they are staying in the same workyard, and right across from us, towards the water. We got a good laugh about it, and they have 3 weeks. 3 long weeks left. 15 working days as Lisa put it. And thats how we spent our last day off, till she goes in the water, kerrschplunk.  Bunkmate

Un~naming

Ya know, we have spent all this time getting ready to go on adventures with Cerridwen, when we are spending all this time with Reunion. We have started removing all things that say Reunion, including removing her name on the aft, both sides. It's not so easy to rub it off with water and wet sand paper. But like everything else, It's gotta be worth it. Right?? We will be doing the un~naming ceremony before she goes in the water. But not sure when we will be doing the re~naming ceremony. Hopefully as she goes in the water. We need some champaign.
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Benicia??

Last sunday we got a break in the weather so we decided to go marina hopping. We chose the Benicia Marina. We are hoping that they still have 2 live aboard slips available. If we have our choice, and the slip is still available, we are shooting for slip #59 or #84. #59 is towards the tip of the dock, and #84 is a wider entrance, and they both are nose in to the prevailing wind. We need to get our butts in gear, get in the water, and on to the next leg of our adventure. So we can slow down and enjoy this cruising life. 
Next weekend is the S.F. boat show. We are debating on if we should go, or stay and work on her. If we do go, it will only be Saturday, so we can go to the after party. Our party buddies that we hooked up with for the last couple of years is on their way to Tahiti right now. You can check them out at;  svsosiego.com
We hope to run into them sometime in the near future.
Bunkmate

Workyard Time

Monday March 31st, 2o14

We made it safe and sound on the move. We still have a ton of stuff that we need to get rid of. I just couldn’t let go of a bunch of clothes, including my T-Shirt collection. But it looks like that needs to be gone thru too.  We have rented a storage locker which we have filled up with stuff that has to be weeded thru. But, we are here!! The first step moving onto Reunion/Cerridwen, Rearranging this spot, to put this in, and rearranging this spot top put that in, and rearranging the drawer to put the stuff that doesn’t fit in there anymore, because there is too much of that to fit in there. !!

We had a break in the rain yesterday, so we jumped in the car and ran around to our marina selections. It turned into a pretty nice ride. There were three marinas that we narrowed it down to, So the trip was to finalize. And we picked , , , , drum roll please,,,,,,Benicia Marina. It sits right at the end of town, with lots of grass for the kiddz to play on. And it is walking distance to stores and such. There are some pretty spendy condos all the way around the marina, with restrooms, showers, and close to laundry facilities.

April 1st we move to the workyard =] And get my unemployed butt to work on getting her ready to splash =].

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Time

Everyone has their own idea of time. Sometimes you can never have enough, and sometimes you have too much on your hands, sometimes time is against you, and sometimes you lose all track of time.
It has come time to put in my 2 week notice at my job, that I have had for, going on 15 years. I have been a 'Customer Satisfaction Manager' for 10 of those years. I have gotten to know alot of my customers as friends, that come to visit a couple of times a week. Also, most of my co~workers have come to be my family. The majority of my new family know that I am leaving soon. Everyone else thinks that it is coming soon, but they don't know that it is at hand.
So we have sold everything, well almost everything. The only things we have left to sell, are the stove, the microwave, and the microwave stand/butcher block, and more stuff to give away, but they have to come and get it, and the rest goes to good will.

We miss our Cap'n, but we are right behind him in a couple of weeks. woop woop    Bunkmate