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  • Remember When You Could Do It All Yourself?

    Maine, Even The Wildlife Get Along, Regardless Of Their Size Differences.
    Maine, Even The Wildlife Get Along, Regardless Of Their Size Differences.

    Today the pitch for life coaches to help you decide the course to take, psychics to read the tea leaves, make the predictions need to be consulted. For a fee.

    Attorneys, accountants, home stagers to make the place look just so. Paid mental health couselors utilizing 55 minute weekly windows to help you sort it out when open porches, family, clergy used to help you over life hurdles.

    It used to be you had skills. Were a Jack of all trades, master of none. But could take care of yourself. Not dependent on others and no money to hire it out. What happened? Did we get soft, less skilled in this, this and this every day event task? And highly specialized in this career choice profession with eight years worth of college sheepskins to earn the money to hire this, this and this done.

    In Maine, we don’t let others have all the fun. Are not dependent on others to do this, perform that task. Partly because money does not flow like sap. And because it comes harder, takes more effort to raise, we don’t let go of it so easy.

    Some of this goes back to days on a farm, rural upbringing.

    You may need that money for a poor Maine crop year when the weather you have no control over, takes over.

    When your good year is dependent on a crop or critter failure somewhere else in the nation’s food basket. Maine, she’ll sober you up, make you realize what’s important, the path to take that is healthy, fun, worthwhile.

    I’m Maine Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • You Live Four Seasons In The Deep Maine Woods Of T8 R6, Penobscot County.

    Trips To Northern Penobscot, Aroostook County Maine To Enjoy Four Season Recreational Fun.
    Trips To Northern Penobscot, Aroostook County Maine To Enjoy Four Season Recreational Fun.

    Can you see yourself making a living being the host of a Maine lodge sporting camp owner with cabins rented out, home made food provided along with hunting, fishing guide services?

    Fresh Maine air fills your lungs. You are in the best shape of your life. And your “job” is not a labor because sharing the Northern Maine woods, helping others “discover” it with your help is rewarding. Along with the neat people, relationships you establish and repeat folks that come to visit this special place called Umcolcus Sporting Camps.

    Since 1927 the Currier family have open up cabins, the kitchen of the lodge and helped many warm up by the fire after a hunting, fishing, sporting trip. The ITS snowsled trails cross this property. Four seasons recreational business is yours…not just catering to guys and gals in blaze orange. Watch the Maine sporting camp video.

    The lifestyle of being in the Northern Maine woods the new owner of a sporting camp operation with six cabins, 11 buildings total on a stream…can you see yourself in this picture. You can buy a job, be the boss, get out from behind that office desk pinning you to the wall.

    Oxbow ME with under 75 folks for year round residents is just north of this unorganized township in Northern Maine.

    Four season recreation options when you are off the beaten path, away from crowds, crime riddled areas happen in Northern Maine. You just have to get here, make plans to spend time in the North Maine woods to sample the rivers, lakes, streams, woods and see the wildlife up close. Live where they live for moments, traditions you make sacred, important. Because they are. It’s called your life.

    I’m Maine REALTOR, Broker Andrew Mooers207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Maine Skiing On Sugarloaf USA Snow Is Already Special, Big.

    White Fluffy Maine Snow, Bring It On.
    White Fluffy Maine Snow, Bring It On.

    The plans to expand Sugarloaf snow skiing in Carrabassett Valley happen on the 69th anniversary as Maine’s second highest peak for down hill winter fun.

    The expansion on Burnt Mountain means over the next six years, the number of land to ski will double in acreage to over 1300 acres when the snow settles so to speak on this project.

    The Burnt Mountain addition to the Sugarloaf operations is a three phase operation. And plans to make snow, groom Burnt Mountain..well, there are no plans to. It’s called back country skiing, with only a few trees removed. A little more natural, more rustic approach for a different experience without the aid of a snow nozzle, a bombadier groomer helping nature along. Natural snow skiing conditions preserved by the wind, rain, weather man and Mother Nature.

    Do you down hill ski? Strap on boards, two at a time or one big one to swish swish and enjoy incredible scenery.

    Getting your lungs full of Maine air, a thorough work out. Socializing on the slopes, being with your family.

    Sure beats sitting on a couch, eating a bowl of cheesos and talking to the cat during commercials over the Maine winter.

    Had two of the four kids home for Christmas college break last year and a trip during a snowstorm to Sugarloaf USA was fun, relatively low cost for the condo we rented. Watch the Maine Sugarloaf snow skiing video. Lucky to have lots of smaller Maine mountains and even ones across the border in to Canada very close to enjoy too. The youngest of four kids is in Colorado for year two and talk about skiing options in his backyard. Yes, we’ve already given him the early Christmas present of a down hill pass that for a college student is dirt cheap. Opens up options to a myriad of mountain challenges on dryer, lighter snow conditions than he grew up with here in Maine.

    Mars Hill Maine’s Big Rock is family friendly, easy to get in and off the slopes, out of the parking lot and does not leave a big dent in your wallet where money used to be. Spring Maine snow skiing is a whole lot of fun, something all ages can do together.

    Winter is more than a six letter word that means snow, colder temperatures. We live in Maine to escape the heat, the humidity and not to hibernate winters. Outdoor recreation in Maine means cross country, down hill skiing. Maine snowsledding, ice fishing, chasing the hockey puck around the high school and college circuit.

    Maine, four seasons. Winter is one of the special ones. Avid skiings getting tickets for down hill season passes or asking Santa for them to be stuffed in stockings of good boys and gals around “Vacationland.” Follow our blogs posts on Maine.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com.

  • The Chevy Lumina Had 200,000 Miles On It.

    Good Testimonial For A Chevy Lumina Donated By Used Car Dealer, Maintained By Mechanic For Free.
    Good Testimonial For A Chevy Lumina Donated By Used Car Dealer, Maintained By Mechanic For Free.

    In our travels in listing, selling Maine real estate, we run in to lots of interesting people.

    Hear many stories about other folk’s life experiences. A couple we have sold property to and for a lot over the last 30 years are from Indiana. They own a used car sales lot that was continued on from his dad’s intial start up.

    A mechanic called him, said he had a woman who was not in good shape financially, health wise. She had cancer, was going back and forth to chemo treatments. Her car was worn out, died. And did he have anything cheap, that would serve her needs. Keep her from worrying about dependable transportation. Or having to hitch hike to cancer treatments.

    The used car dealer said when he heard there was little money, a case of a lady suffering, up against the wall enough with cancer let alone loss of her wheels, he said he just had a car with 200,000 miles traded in. A 1993 Chevy Lumina that she could have. Free, for nothing. Come get it.

    The lady came in to the dealership and he explained the last owners of the Lumina said there was one problem. The car would sometimes stall at a stop sign, traffic light but if you let it sit for a minute, it would restart. You were back on your merry way. The lady said she wanted dependable transportation and he said this car is free if she wanted it. She was not so sure and wanted guarantees.

    She came back to the dealership an hour later and said she would take it as is. Just as traded. She thought about the gift and that maybe it was not reasonable to expect the used car dealer to warrant, or repair any mechanical problems and take her chances. The car was a healthier horse than the one shot, buried, deep sixed out back that she was depending on to get to cancer treatments.

    The mechanic who had asked the used car dealer for help for someone between a rock and a hard place, with little resources decided to take on maintenance tasks for free with the car.

    It never did stall at stop signs, street lights for this lady and she got thru cancer treatments.

    Put 100,000 extra miles on the car getting the rest of the cancer treatments done with little troubles. And the mechanic replacing brake pads, doing very minor maintenance beyond oil changes. That’s it.

    This used car salesman figures God was Mr Goodwrench looking over the car. The lady is alive today, and her transportation provided by folks who cared. Figured they were better off than her. That they would need a helping hand if the shoe was on the other foot. When you lose faith in your fellow man, stories like this being done behind the scenes because it is the right thing to do, not for praise or attention, it gives you a good feeling. Needs to be shared.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Maine WordPress Blogger, So Much To Say Like Dave Matthews Sings.

    Just did a cross country trip with youngest son Elliot in a red jeep left in Colorado Springs Colorado for year two of his college experience.

    And along the way, music of all kinds, like this Dave Matthews song “So Much To Say” still sticking in my head.

    Especially the saxophone’s music deep, forceful “puffs”.

    It is neat that my kids have ipods loaded with music they expose me to and classics thirty to forty years old I shared with them from Led Zeppelin, Cream, Little Feat, Rolling Stones, Traffic and so many others. That they listened to growing up and absorbed in to their rich, vast musical genre repertoire. That are loaded, played, enjoyed on those touch screen ipods plugged in to sound systems at home, in the car.

    Glad to be home, back in Maine and blogging from Houlton not Stuart Iowa, Greeley Colorado or on the road trip to college last week.

    Miss Elliot already but his older brother Alex home for one more college semester that starts in January so more music of all times filling the air at 69 North Street or on the shores of Drews Lake in Linneus Maine.

    Bloggers have so much to say, so much to say, and post with images, videos about Maine, the way life should be.


    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • The Mother College Campus Of The University Of Maine Is In Orono.

    Thirsty Jeep Ferrying, Shuttling Youngest Son Elliot To Colorado College.
    Thirsty Jeep Ferrying, Shuttling Youngest Son Elliot To Colorado College.

    Back in 1979 I got a Maine college degree from the University Of Maine at Orono.

    Two of my brothers did as well as civil and mechanical engineers. My dad was an agriculture economics major from UMO. My degree was in broadcasting with a minor in film and a slew of advertising / journalism courses. My four kids had other ideas and colleges, universities further away called their names liked sirens. So early on I started saving for these schools, sheep skin degrees from more expensive, located further away higher educational institutions.

    Today I am awake in a hotel room outside of Des Moines Iowa and letting youngest son Elliot saw another hour’s worth, a cord or two of sleep logs. Driving west from Houlton Maine to Colorado Springs Colorado to leave he, a red jeep for another year of college at Colorado College. While I climb on a silver bird Sunday with Delta printed on it proudly for promotional purposes to flap two wings, aided by a pair or jet engines to guide it safely back to Bangor Maine.

    Like countless other parents making trips to Kmart, Walmart, Target and Sam’s Club for back to school supplies, I am part of the exodus, the trek from home to the halls of higher learning.

    The oldest daughter surviving four years with a tightly wrapped degree from Columbia in New York City. Her youngest sister doing the same at Boston’s Simmons College. The oldest son closing in on the four year degree from George Washington in Washington DC, the home of all those elected officials, upper levels of Federal government.

    The trip west with Elliot will take us to Greeley Colorado tonight to retrieve last year’s college survival items, supplies. With a droid to connect daily on line to keep the Maine real estate office running smoothly with Robin’s help back home. And with a healthy flow of a very wide selection of musical genres, Elliot and I have had smooth sailing. With lively conversations on a variety of topics on life, love, family and everything in between. What has he learned, what I need to make sure I told him about, shared that he could use year’s later to guide him part of my never ending job as a parent who takes that job serious.

    I am missing him already after his summer move back home before we even hug. Say good bye for a fall semester as he heads to class. With no doubt a series of college home coming parties around campus to get the year started official as old acquaintances are renewed. Kids catch up on what happened over summer vacation. And now I enjoy time with his older brother this fall who returns to DC for his last semester in January. Who is still home for a few more months.

    One on one time with one of a parent’s kid is special for that parent and the child as they head to college, university or during the time off from school.

    Blogging from a little town west of Des Moines Iowa with a half hour to kill before the alarm goes off to signal resumation of the last leg of the cross country college trip. The one in a red jeep called Sally that four kids sharpened their first set of driving skills in. And that will serve Elliot well on any weekend snow skiing trips he can squeeze in on the many slopes of Colorado.

    Have a college kid or two you are ferrying, shuttling back to college or university? And getting an education to top your own with the conversations, exposure to the exciting lives of your students, kids, sons and daughters along the way to add to your own? I love being a parent, feel privledged to have four bright, neat, smart kids.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com.