Maine blog posts don’t need a sea of words to relay worthwhile information.
In fact, images of Maine, videos of local Maine events can do the heavy lifting. Both easily relay what is it like living in Vacationland. Here are some images of Maine that I think do a pretty good job relaying the day to day experience. To transport you to Maine and to get a small taste of what is it like living here full time. Maine four season living offers lots of eye candy to share if you carry a camera and leave the safety off to bag and tag the imagery.
Farmer To Farmer MOFGA Meeting. Young And Old Farmers Compare Notes. Maine Organic Agriculture Is Big!Heading To Church. Amish Mass Transit In Maine. Not Quite Bumper To Bumper Traffic Drive Time.Clear Crisp Air. Moon Lighting Up A Small Maine Town.Summer Concerts, Small ME Town Outdoor Music Events Always Well Attended By All Ages Who Hum, Sing, Toe Tap.Float Your Boat, Living The Life In Maine. Water, The Kind On The Maine Coast. Lakes, Ponds, River Variety.Dressed In White Snow Caps. Mt Katahdin At A Different Angle And Season Always Impresses.Hang On, Get Sprayed, Rushing Through Maine’s Penobscot River Rapids.Maine Is Vast. The Woods, Water, People Are Real. Mainers Are Outdoors Year Round. Just Dress For The Season.Young Holstein Dairy Calf Says Hello From Maine Farmstead. Black, White, Pink And Brand New.Something Unique From Maine. Local Artists And Crafts People Peddle Home Made Wares At Maine Fairs.Picture Perfect Weather For A Small Maine Town 4th Of July Parade!Waiting For Spring. The Maine Farm Pony Can Sense Spring Is Approaching.Portland Head Lighthouse. She’s Actually In Cape Elizabeth Not Portland Maine. Maine Has Over 60 Lighthouses!
And videos on living in Maine. Show and tell, sample the local small town flavor. Visit with locals, be at Maine small town events.
Don’t those work best for the show and tell of the flavor of living in Maine? Roll the Maine video.
Better throw in a few Maine community videos into the media mix while we are building the newest blog post entry today.
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Maine is small town living, a handful of cities.
She is one big and beautiful sixteen counties to explore and return to through out your lifetime. Maine is lots more than the four color tourist vacation brochures show case.
What do you like best about the state of Maine? Always looking for Maine blog post topics to mine and develop to keep it fresh and helpful. Hope this Maine photo and video highlight adds to the hunt and peck media stream we put online for blog posts.
Maine bees, the busy buzz pollinating benefits to flower enthusiasts and vegetable farming.
There are over 270 native Maine bee species in the state. Honey bees are not native to Maine and European settlers introduced them to what is now affectionately dubbed “Vacationland”.
Outdoor Flower Arrangements. The Best Kind For All To See. For Maine Bees To Enjoy Too!
Honey bees, bumble bees and roughly 4000 solitary bee populations reside in Maine and are some kind of busy.
Making the rounds, these bees pollinate agricultural crops, vegetable and flower garden plots. All plants found in the wilds of Maine fields and woodlands. The Maine pasture field clover, daisies, black eyed susans, lupines and Indian paint brush wildflowers. All those wild flowers get a shot in the arm from Maine bees making their daily rounds.
Parasitic mites reduced the Maine honey bee populations by twenty five percent. Pesticides, herbicides, insecticides used incorrectly have further threatened the bee population so important to local Maine farming pollination.
Bees pollinating Maine farm crops and producing honey and wax is an important state endeavor.
Like The Mail Man Or UPS Gal, Making Lots Of Stops. Maine Bees Are BUZZZ-sy.
This University of Maine Cooperative Extensive Bee bulletin outlines why bees are so important. Also your Maine property can be made more inviting to the bee population and to increase pollination activity. Read more on how to make your yard more bee friendly.
The work of Maine bees helps others out in the natural wildlife setting too.
Flowering plants, shrubs and trees create seeds and fruit, vegetables for other wildlife to live. In their daily flights, bees, birds, hummingbirds, dragon flies, butterflies and moths all help distribute the important pollen around the Mane plant population.
I was always told as a kid by my parents, older brothers bees don’t want to sting you and just leave them alone.
The fuzzy bumble bee dressed like a Boston Bruin hockey player trapped and buzzing in the rear car
Attracting Maine Bees, Inviting Them To Your Flower Beds.
window of a parked vehicle when you are little can make getting away from them a little harder. Fear to happen. But respect and helping them get out of a building, a vehicle instead of using spray or something else to kill them was something I was taught growing up on a Maine farm. We needed Maine bees. They like the potato beetle that ate an aphid that was no good was our friend!
Planting a mix of flower shapes knowing bees have different size tongues, using perennials that bloom yearly is not a bad approach to encouraging pollination, honey production of the sweet nectar.
Hand broadcast those meadow in a can flower seed collections. Scientists report bees like best vegetation loaded with blue, yellow, purple flowers. Lots of hand broadcast wild flowers with these colors and
Maine Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, Lots Of Buzz Flying Around Rural Maine.
planted in abundance will help assure visits from bees that do so much good to the Maine environment.
More from the USDA Natural Conservation Service education and funding to promote farmer help for pollinators like Maine bees are.
They report one of our every three mouthful bites of food in this country are thanks to the work honey bee pollinators do.
Learn more about honey bees and their benefits spreading pollen to fertilize other plants, for collecting nectar.
Here’s another video that shows even more up close and personal what Maine honey bee do each day and why.
You have a whole new level of respect for Maine bee pollination and how they can transport up to a third their weight in their busy day.
To take the bee pollen trapped on their body and to carry the honey nectar nibbling on flowers and loaded it up for the quick trip back to the bee hive.
What’s All The Buzz? Eye Candy And Bee Honey Extraction.
Sometimes it is good not to mind your bees wax.
Growing up on a Maine farm, with potato blossoms to pollinate and a Mom who had three different flower gardens, bees were around our family. The white and purple potato flowers with the bright yellow, hard to miss parts were popular with the local bee population.
The apple orchard, rhubarb patch, the strawberry and corn fields all depended on the Maine bee visits.
The all natural honey sweetness is better for you than sugar. The health benefits of pure Maine bee honey was known and it was part of our medicine cabinet along with cold liver oil, coke syrup, salt water for soaking wherever we were sore. Lots of other simple ailment remedies to get us back on our feet used growing up on a Maine farm up in Aroostook County.
More on the health benefits of Maine honey. The antioxidants help lower high blood pressure, diabetics are cheerleaders of Maine bee honey too.
Are you fan of Maine honey and the bees that produce it?
Maine Farm Fields Buzzing With Bees Collecting Nectar, Pollinating The Acreage.
Before we know it, the birds, bees in Maine spring will be active as the season changes.
Maine bees. Pure and all natural honey from Maine. Is it a big part of your daily life in what you eat, in how your protect as a good Maine stewards of the land? Do you think about protecting Maine bees and their natural habitat? Like the song birds, the Maine bees would be missed greatly if their buzz was gone. Thank you for stopping by the Maine blog post to bone up on your knowledge of Maine bees.
Maine winter weather shoveling, snow plowing means watch and prepare for what’s in the forecast.
Except the open winters where a drought of the white stuff happens. For those in the blog post audience with no Maine winter experience, the wrong conclusion. It is easy to think no snow, warmer temperatures right?
Horses Waiting For Grain, An Apple Or Carrot. Winter Winds Down Slowly In Maine.
Don’t the two go hand in hand?
No snow can mean little precipitation combined with low frigid temperatures.
Your open, snow-less winters are the coldest and the outdoor recreation takes a hit. Less snow plowing and shoveling work outs.
But hard to down hill or cross country ski without the snow flakes piling up on the open ground. Good luck snow sledding without a blanket of white to lubricate the track slides and to steer with the carbide ski runners.
Snow is a house insulator believe it or not.
Those snow banks up against your Maine home foundation help protect it from the wind. Open winters with no snow means certain recreation increases. Ice fishing if temperatures stay at or below the freezing mark long enough keeps things chill. The winters with pretty much zip or too little snow make the other Maine outdoor sports kick it up a notch. Often we have the snow. Then lose it all due to an early spring thaw like weather pattern. Warm temperatures turn snow like Frosty to water that runs into the lakes, rivers, streams.
More bonfires, hot chocolate and spirited Maine ice skating pond hockey games in Maine open winters.
Ice fishing derbies to drilled the hole to open up the lake below angling. The ice arenas around that state
Hang On, Celebrate Winter in Maine. That’s What Moosestompers Is All About.
of Maine get higher hockey game attendance if the team is winning more than they are tying or losing games chasing the black circle.
In my small hometown of Houlton Maine, the first weekend in February is always Moose Stompers Weekend.
Waiting For Ice, For The Snow After That Signalling Maine Winter Has Arrived.
A celebration of winter started up at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone and re-ignited by town manager at the time Alan Bean.
Bean was the Loring air base colonel who mothballed the B-52 facility and applied the locks on the chain link perimeter fencing.
When how to handle and hopefully deter a nuclear war strategy changed. As the new weaponry came along and a change in the political winds happened. That suddenly reduced Northern Maine’s population roughly ten thousand service men and women calling Limestone, Caswell, Connor Plantation and other surrounding Aroostook County towns their home sweet home.
This one the 24th installment in my home town of Houlton Maine. I’ve worn the moose outfit that makes you slow, blind and hot. But climbing up the sliding hill and watching the snowmobile and horse drawn sleigh rides is family fun. We don’t hibernate and get out to celebrate Maine winter’s magic.
But back to winter weather and how those not living in Maine wonder how and why do we do it.
When you wake up and overnight a new fresh fluffy layer of snow surrounds your yard and accumulates on your porches and in your drive and walk ways. We don’t feel marooned or stranded. We are prepared for winter, have experience removing it and driving on the plowed and sanded roadways. Put on the winter coat, zip it up high and grab your mittens and snow boots. Like everyone else in the neighborhood, the operation to clear the yard of snow begins in earnest. Watch a snow storm video that shows the process of how we in Maine deal with a storm.
Snow shoveling is a great work out employing upper and lower back especially.
Plus your abs, quads, shoulders and other muscles get to take part in the snow shoveling. White fluffy snow is balanced on the shovel load after load. The older, higher water content settling snow can be sliced into with the end of the shovel.
Maine Moose Tip Toeing Across Lake Ice. Hope Nothing Starts Cracking Under Those 4 Hooves.
Carving out the chunk you want to release from the snow bank. The one you can handle size wise and balance as you slide under and carry or toss it to where it needs to go. Easy on too heavy and lifting / twisting to avoid injury. Like lifting, the right way using your legs. Do the same with the shovel loads of snow when it is time to heave ho and here we go.
Snow in Maine, shoveling it is a great aerobic exercise.
Maybe more than you like with back to back snow storms but the satisfaction of a cleared walk and driveway couples with the calorie burns. How many calories does shoveling snow really chew up? Experts calculate 200 calories every 30 minutes is what snow shoveling causes inside your system.
Like most things in life, slow and steady is the pace to set shoveling snow.
Have the right length and size shovel matched to the operator. The kids pitch in and their smaller shovel size loads still add up as a family attacks and rearranges where the new snow goes. Snow scoops that slide and push under larger deep sections of snow are effective on driveways and hauled up ladders for long flat commercial roofs. A small storm of a couple inches or less can be handled easily with a snow scoop taking systematic runs. You will sleep better tonight with all that inhaled fresh Maine air. Trust me.
Singing Or Howlin’ Together. The Sound In Winter The Animals Make When Cornered. Heavy Snow Load Affect The Maine Wildlife.
Even the family dog plays in the new snow and the banks packed into place by the snow blowers and plows becomes the backyard fort. The snow tunnel dug out with shovel, hands and feet for the kid’s new play room.
Outdoor fresh air in Maine.
That will improve the appetite. No matter what age, everyone gets a healthy dose clearing the new snow and playing with it in it a variety of ways.
Pick up trucks marauding the small Maine in town streets, back road ways with blinking and revolving orange roof lights.
Their yellow, red and stainless steel snow plow blades angled and ready to drop and push the banks. The beep beep of backing up pay loaders and larger commercial truck mount snow blowers working their magic. Moving the snow out of the driveway and pushing it to the back of the in-town lot or well away from your country home and out buildings.
The big bucket machinery brought in at ninety dollars and up an hour to make short work of relocating large snow banks that become rock solid and more than an F150 can handle.
The industrial snow blowers and trucks with big wings cut through the heaviest of snow loads with ease. The snow plowing video above illustrates what a small Maine town looks like during and after a storm. How quickly it digs out and resumes to business as usual with a systematic snow removal attitude.
Slowly Fixed And The Land Worked To Feed The Family. Welcome To Maine!
Snow plowing with old worn out pick ups create a constant source of mechanical breakdowns when you need them the most. Snow plowing is hard on truck universal joints, electrical systems and all that picking up speed to ram and clear to push to make the banks.
If you are looking for an excuse to buy a new four wheel drive pickup with the plow and all the bells and whistles. Go for it.
Knock yourself out and convince the wife you need one. But every Tom, Dick and Harry in Maine has a plow or a cousin with one. For what it costs to plow out a driveway in my area, hire it done can make the more economic sense. But some love snow plowing. My Dad did.
His Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Count Basie or Glenn Miller cassette tape adding a music beat lowering the plow and pushing the Maine snow.
Your Little Brown Jug, In The Mood, etc with brass horns, clarinets and World War Two era dance music filling the pick up cab. As the 1999 Dodge four wheel drive pickup with now just turned 13,000 miles on the odometer continuing the snow plowing tradition around our Maine family farm property.
Snow plowing in Maine, those who have never done it think we are crazy.
Playful And In And Out Of The Long Open Winter Cold Lake Water. Otters Entertain!
But we live in a Northern tier state not unlike Michigan, New York, Wisconsin and the others along the Canadian border. Just like many of us are slaves to very big and long grassed lawns kept manicure with once or twice a week mowing rituals.
Snow plowing is in our blood and in Maine there are places like New Sweden, Stockholm, Denmark Maine with folks from those area of the World where snow is common place.
Don’t stay away and sample Maine in winter.
Come on up! Because the white snow makes all the difference in your Vacationland experience. Maine winter, we know how to handle the snow and it is a big part of our recreation and lifestyle.
When someone says they’ve been to Maine, ask them to tell you where. Dollars to donuts, the landing in Maine is usually near the Green Bridge on the state’s south end. Then after a short visit they probably high tail it back to the population centers below Maine.
The St John River Valley, Aroostook County’s Crown Of Maine.
Time, travel and knowing Maine is very tall, pretty wide keeps some from venturing too far north, east and west.
Missing out on so much up into the many interior sections to sample like the Crown of Maine.
The purpose of this blog post to leave you knowing more about the St John River Valley than when you stumbled onto the Me In Maine website.
More on settling the St John River Valley and the people called the Acadians, the French Canadians. To strengthen the mail route and plug a gap in service providing was one of the goals of the Quebec and New Brunswick governors.
The Acadians, displaced to make room for loyalists to the King of England after the American Revolution then moved from the southern valley to the north.
What was the carrot to entice the relocation? Moving for the land grants, the chance to gain the services of a priest and to reunite deported family members. (more…)
New year’s resolutions, are you after simple living, doing your thinking in quiet places?
Is your new year’s resolutions list held firmly under a strong magnet on the front of your refrigerator? To remind your daily of the new dance steps you yourself penned.
Is Your New Year’s Resolution To Fish More? To Spend Time Getting Outdoors In Maine?
The list of good intentions that causes glee or guilt. It all depends on how things unfold this new year. Assume the position for study and reflection developing your New Year’s plan.
Did you party late into the night and watch the ball drop?
Or are you late to the party about spelling out your New Year’s Resolution dream for 2020. What’s that? I hear muttering about you’re just too busy, no time. Just have not gotten around to carving out a list or why bother. Procrastination is one of the most common resolution list item to conquer for many.
So it seems lack of time is the biggest obstacle.
More time, what you long for way too much like a powerful hunger or thirst to quench.
Better use of the time is where the extra seconds, minutes or hours are hiding. Why always hurrying and out of time? Like cramming for a test. Why do you wait until the last minute to study? Is it because we run over booked lives with too much multi tasking? Or just waste the precious time we have on social media. Watching others with lives new and highly exciting compared to ours?
Maybe better use of our time is the number one New Year’s resolution to make.
To become better organized and remove the junk or clutter that robs the joy. To do a better job living
Too Much Excitement Or Pacing Yourself With A Cat Nap. While Waiting To Go Water Skiing On A Maine Lake?
within our means and developing a savings plan of time and money. Keeping it simple living in Maine.
A lot of people living in high cost urban areas are all doing their homework, planning their escape to Maine.
Maybe that is your primary new year’s resolution? Been on your list year after year as you prepare for the jailbreak to get to Maine. You need more fresh air, clean water and all this wide open scenery. Lose the hemmed in feeling in the vastness of Maine.
A lot of the New Year’s resolutions are about improving and tightening up our physical health habits.
To go easier on the internal organs and realizing personal health is up to each of us to maintain. Respect the body like it is a temple. If you feel fit and trim, that’ll help big time. To improve the quality of life with the DNA hand we were dealt from the family gene pool. What your earlier loved ones in the family struggled with or died from too early in life. You think about those people more the older you get as the years fly by at a quicker pace. (more…)
Soap box derby racing, in Maine the date to remember is always in June.
This year June 20th is the 25th year of Northern Maine soap box derby racing date. The Houlton Maine derby program enjoys success thanks to a special engineered hill. Built to make derby racing safe and the track easy to set up and tear down each year. Rain or shine, the derby race is held on Derby Hill at Community Park in Houlton Maine. More on building a stock and super stock soap box derby car.
If you want to race in a local, Houlton Maine is the state venue for soap box derby racing.
The best way to know more about the race program is by watching video of soap box derby race in Maine downhill runs.
Since 1934, the national down hill racing event in Akron Ohio attracts hundreds of racers. That trek to Ohio to test their racing skills on a three lane hill that has adjustments to make each car launch release as even steven as possible. In soap box derby racing, heats used to advance racers are won or loss by hundredths of a second. Here’s the link for the stock car derby racer kit. Taller, older drivers will enjoy the extra space inside the super stock racing car kit. Soap box derby racing in Maine, here to help you get into the program as a driver, sponsor, program volunteer.
Here are lots of images from past soap box derby races held on the Houlton Maine hill.
Weighing During Tech Day. 200 Pounds Maximum Weight For Kids, Car, Helmet.Nervous? You Bet. Let’s Check Brake Again. Adjust That Helmet To Be Ready For A Green Light.Trial Run For New Drivers. Lane 1 & 2 Neck & Neck! Heats Decided By Thousands Of A Second.Out At Akron Ohio All American Race Run 3 Lanes At A Time.Houlton Maine, The State Of Maine Race Site Was The Largest In Country Five Years In A Row!Good Sportsmanship And Safety Are Absolutes In Soap Box Derby Racing.The Gates Topside On Derby Hill In Houlton Maine.This Year’s T-Shirt For Stock, Super Stock, Master Car Racers All Different Colors.Topside Looking Down At The Finish Line Of Derby Hill.
Families of all ages can race and kids can compete in one of three different soap box derby car divisions to keep them all involved.
Fairness, safety and competitive racing develops mechanical and driving skills. Rally races are held around the country to attend and add to the skill set. Points are awarded and getting to Akron Ohio on rally points to compete is another option for a derby driver and their support team to discuss.
Gravity is the engine and removable weights put in all the right places helps fuel the derby car faster down the lanes.
Waiting For Weight In, Pairing For Soap Derby Racing Heats.
Alignment, getting lower in the car for aerodynamics and so many other areas make a difference as your driver and their mechanic develop driving confidence in soap box derby racing.
It’s all about lots of little derby driving secrets and engineering brainstorming.
Planning on racing in the Maine state soap box derby race in Houlton Maine June 20th, 2020?
The 25th year of derby downhill racing will be extra special. If you are a sponsor looking for car to put in the Houlton race, please contact the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby program. Help to find a driver for your car is available and there are racers looking for a sponsor. Your Me In Maine blog author Andrew Mooers has ventured to Akron Ohio for the All American Soap Box Derby Race a couple of times with two of his children who won the local Houlton ME event.
