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Vacation On A Maine Beach | Moody, Wells Beach Maine

Vacation on a Maine beach.

Moody, Wells Beach Maine is one popular spot I have discovered. You’ve been laboring pretty hard and all work, no play makes for a dull boy or girl right? How about a little Maine beach sand? Some fun in the sun with sea salt air? The sound of a crashing waves? And lots of locally sourced surf and turf Maine food prepared just the way you like it, remember it from the last Maine vacation.

What Do You Think Is This Home Owner’s Favorite Color? Maybe Prince Or Barney Lived Here At One Time.

COVID and the pandemic kind of tabled the vacation in Maine idea for many for awhile. But not anymore and here comes the fun in the sun at the sand with the surf on a Maine beach. You on this vacation train?

Life’s A Beach Right? Maine Beach Vacations In Moody, Wells, Perkins Cove Are Special.

This blog post on vacation on a Maine beach returns to a familiar haunt, the Wells, Moody, Ogunquit Maine area coastal locations.

Making it heavy on the photo essay end of things so eye candy dominates the blog. And nothing gets lost in a seawall of words. Here are some images from Moody, Wells Beach Maine!

Sunset, The Maine Coastal Boats Return One By One. The Foot Bridge Raises To Allow Sail Boats Harbor Entry Into Perkins Cove.

Depending on what you do for a career, I think most of us never really stop thinking about our jobs. The vacation on Maine beach is to run away and then look back at where we live, what we do for work, our family, how life is going so far. We’ve blogged about Wells, Moody Beach area of Maine’s coast before.

Maine Vacation Homes, All Sizes And Prices. Looking To Own, Not Rent Your Vacation Spot?

Squeezing out enough time to take a Maine vacation is a lot easier when you already live in state for a the getaway take a much needed break.

No matter how long or short, you took the time to log some vacation miles. In your home away from home new location, I always think what would it be like living here.

Proud Americans Waving The Red, White And Blue USA Stars And Stripes.

I study the real estate and what’s for sale, what’s it cost.

What you do or do not get for how much. This is not the first foray to Wells or Moody Beach sand, or time spent in the Ogunquit and Kennebunkport region of the Maine coast.

Returning To A Vacation Location In Maine. How About The Wells, Moody Beach Area? All Ages Love A String Of Sunny Days At The Maine Beach.

But this summer’s vacation visit makes me realize forget buying at the top of the Maine real estate market.

Too little to pick from and high priced means time for real estate market study of neighborhoods and housing stock. But apply lots of impulse control in the real estate spending department.

To spend some time vacationing in a new region of Maine but making it a property investment at the same time. Knowing others would rent out what you purchase as long as their health allows. The same people taking the exact amount of days to vacation in the same section of the calendar annually is pretty common.

Stay Down Front, Below The Private Beach High Water Seaweed Mark. Them’s The Rules.

Some snooze, others read a book, a few nurse something cold. You see long fishing poles and vacations carrying bait in the other hand. Kids make sand castles, divert water into “ponds” or search for interesting rocks to take home. Maybe some sea glass gets collected.

Find A Spot, Park It For The Day At A Maine Beach! Is That The Vacation Plan?

Not everyone wants or can afford to buy and take on the debt and responsibility of another second vacation property to maintain.

But anything on or near the Maine waterfront whether coastal ocean or inland lake, river, stream or pond is never a bad investment. Holding its own and staying off the ropes when Maine real estate markets warm up or cool off until the next economic cycle arrives.

Flowers Of All Colors And Kinds Add Splash To The Maine Coast Scenery.

Tourist traps, yes, Maine coastal areas are but delicious, fun relaxing ones.

The density of people with license plates heavy to folks from New England was heavier than usual. The habit of a summer Maine vacation stay on the coast did not happen for many during the COVID pandemic. Just changing up where you live with something outside of that day to day routine. Maine vacations, no better place to land and explore.

The Rental For This Maine Vacation At Wells, Moody Beach, At South Tibbetts On A Corner Lot.

Like lots of places “help wanted” signs were everywhere on this Maine vacation.

And some instead of NO VACANCY used kinder, gentler terms. PLEASANTLY FULL, COMFORTABLY FULL and variations to show gratitude for every room or rental cottage or beach house until is taken. For many in the tourism industry, the 2021 summer season is catch up but highly profitable at the same time. Americans, Canadians, everyone no matter where they are from needs and wants to vacation travel as long as they are able.

The Sun Porch For Early Morning Coffee. Planning The Day At The Maine Beach On Vacation. It Happens Here.

Remembering “there’s no such thing as time” or hustling to watch the clock on your Maine vacation.

To squeeze out more production with greater multi task efficiency not always the mission. You are off the clock, but mildly aware of the weather forecast to catch some quality beach time. To plan other events when the sun is on vacation too. So the rainy day for other Maine R & R options.

The Porch On A Maine Vacation Property. The Best Spot To Review Or Plan A Vacation Day. This One At Moody Beach.

I like where I already live in Maine. Aroostook County to me is a place like no other.

Less people, not traffic, lower price fun, not so commercialized. But being four hours away and suddenly able to change up the same state, different location day to day scenery completely helps the life reflection process.

Moody Beach, Here We Come! Another Day In The Sun, Sand, Surf. Starting With An Early Morning Walk And Continual Returns To The Ocean Beach Vacation Magnet.

Developing five year plans, reviewing the New Year’s resolution line items, improving relationships, studying the local real estate market and sampling local cuisine. A lot happens on a Maine vacation to a person, their family members.

My partner Meg spent her childhood with yearly Wells Beach area Maine family vacations.

Her desire continue to spend chunks of time yearly in this particular coastal region of Maine is no secret. Seeing how happy this area of Maine makes her means better start looking for an investment property in the Wells Beach area. To pay for itself in vacation rental income and to get some private personal use at the same time.

Time For Lobster, Steamed Clams. Good Food At Perkins Cove To Cap Off A Day At The Maine Beach.

Hard to rent when a lifetime has been spent getting folks out of the rent rut and into Maine home ownership remember? It’s what I do. Solve housing puzzles. Helping folks find housing for whatever their life stage requires.

Like Jewelry, The Finds Of Interesting Rocks, Sea Shells, Sea Glass At A Maine Beach.

As you walk the beach or bike the roadways around Moody, Wells Beach, I don’t want to be one or a couple rows back from the surf and sand.

Some of the back vacation beach rentals are far from the public right of way and others right across the road for easy access. Some sections of private beach means better plan your visit around the ebb and flow of the local tides. If there is beach sand in front of the seaweed high water line, here’s your spot to spread the beach blanket.

Neat And Trim, Maine Vacation Properties Are Well Maintained. Usually. The Pretty But Prickly Wild Roses Make A Privacy Security Fence Not Needed.

There are McMansions. Older classic New England beach houses that are still interior bare wall open studded. And everything inbetween. You see construction on vacant lots where there used to be a vacation rental. One fire on the a front row vacation home where you instantly think “hope no one was hurt. The neatly named Vacation places you sense families have been coming to for years. And so many green thumb kept up tip top in high test pride of ownership landscaping.

A Day At The Maine Beach. Sunshine High Over Head, The Sound Of The Crashing Surf, All This Sand.

There are so many Maine vacation beach houses of all kinds and conditions to consider.

Time for the saving, waiting and doing my real estate homework to get ready to buy is fun. A shorter vacation for me because not really the time to leave loose ends in a hot Maine real estate market dangling back at the office. But the riding bikes, taking longer beach walks, spending time on a screened in porch later at night and earlier around sunrise. Then high tailing it back to “The County” energized and full of a new perspective in the return to daily living.

Properties On The Beach In Maine. Those Are The Pricey Ones That Everyone Wants. Upfront With The Ocean Beach Sand In Your Lap All To Yourself.

Visits to the same region but not the same season yields an entirely different experience.

Like this same location like in the Wells Moody Beach area without everything open or quite so many after the same surf and turf offering.

Don’t just think of Maine vacations happening in only the summer months or you miss out big time. Here’s a earlier blog post on a winter instate stay vacations in the Wells Beach area.

No Little Shack Or Shanty. Some Maine Beach Homes Are Compounds, High Taxed And Swanky. Used By Multi Generations Of Vacations Who Never Plan To Sell Out Of The Family.

Lucky to live in Maine is always the take away from these blogged about vacation visits whenever they can be juggled in to take a much needed break. Hope you enjoy all the images from the most recent Wells Beach, Moody Beach and Ogunquit Maine visit. More Maine photos, just the right amount of blog post copy to share a recent vacation to the coast heavy on imagery.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

July 28, 2021
Veterans Memorials In Maine | 4 Corners Veterans Memorial

Veterans memorials in Maine.

The Veteran Memorials, In Maine You Find Them No Matter How Big Or Small The Town. Working Together With Multi Maine Communities Makes The Impacts Greater.

4 Corners Veterans Memorial in Southern Aroostook County towns of Oakfield, Smyrna, Merrill, Dyer Brook, Maine. Statewide there are lots of them listing who served and died in the protection of freedom. The number of older veteran monument style honor rolls remind you just how big a place in history the service and sacrifice is given by the locals. Families, friends, local heros from your home town in Maine is a big deal.

Small Maine communities treat their veterans very special.

Big statutes from civil war era, streets lined with American flags, fund raising and construction of veterans honor rolls listing familiar family names. All part of the landscape as you tool around a small Maine community. Maybe Maine’s older population is part of the increased honor and respect. Maine families all have someone who served a hitch or two in the armed forces for Uncle Sam. The local American Legions, the Veterans of Foreign Wars outposts for veterans to do good service work also helps keep the spirit alive.

Maine Veteran Monuments. Check Out This Four Town One In Aroostook County!

The loss of a community member in a war or conflict far from home is felt harder due to the tight knit fabric of small Maine towns.

The connection is stronger, deeper and folks are more connected when the community depends on its members to comfort each other.

Maine Veterans Memorial Monuments. Four Towns In Maine Join Forces.

Saturday I took the time to stop and study one new “Four Corners” veterans memorial tribute.

Built near the corner of several Northern Maine town lines, the towns of Oakfield, Smyrna, Merrill and Dyer Brook rallied the troops. To organize, plan, fund raise and put the dream into action. Large black granite walls of veteran’s names lined up in formation. Standing perfectly straight up and down covering all the branches of the armed services. Plus remembering the missing in action, even paying tribute to the Spanish American war.

Many Gave Some, Some Gave All. Maine Veterans Are Memorialized, Never Forgotten!

Those that died while serving, all the names from four towns in Northern Maine chiseled top to bottom to study.

World Wars, peace time service, the Civil War, Merchant Marines, MIA’s, all the branches of the armed services are presented. While the flutter of several flags happens overhead in the background. I remember the experience taking the family into the USS Arizona in Hawaii and recalled no one talks. No one whispers. You slowly move into the chamber where lists of those who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor cover the marble walls. Plus with a twist.

Maine Local Folks Love And Respect Veterans Who Served. Good Luck Finding Any Maine Family Without Several Veterans In It.

After you study the veteran names and move side to side something clicks.

Wait a minute. Dates for death inscribed that are not December 7th, 1941 appear in your field of vision. You process the down low 2008, 2012, etc names of veterans who died later.

Veterans who their service, competed their tour and stayed alive until the end of the war.

Then one by one the survivors of that surprise Sunday morning attack return. To the place that brought our country into war with Japan and have their remains capsuled an d names added to the scrolls at the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii monument. Survivors of that historic day lived to eventually return to the watery grave with their ship mates.

Spanish American War, Civil War, Not Just Vietnam, Korea, The World War Skirmishes Honored And Preserved. MIAs, Peace Time Service, Merchant Marines, All The Arm Services Branched Get Spotlighted.

The Four Corners Memorial also has paved in the walkway as you enter the veterans monument.

More personal family tributes and listing the advertising local community supporters from individuals and business members. I recognized lots of names from the local monument and was proud in my home town my Dad, Uncle Fred, two brothers, lots of cousins appear on that Veterans monument behind the Cary Library.

My Dad was a tail gunner in a B-24 Liberator four engine bomber plane flying missions over Germany during World War Two.

His home away from home was an Army tent with a gas heater and each morning there were briefings at sunrise on where the daylight bombing run would entail today. What the targets were and what if weather does not cooperate. Then what, where to divert for secondary targets to avoid the civilian population losses?

Maine Monuments, Veteran Memorials Like The One In Four Corners, Aroostook County.

This Four Corners monument was a smart approach so each town did not struggle with the fundraising but joined forces.

Collectively worked out the details of the engineering involved with earthwork, buying the materials at the best price, lining up the contractors through a bid process. Lots of free help and aid to construction of materials happens in small Maine towns too. The local towns people feel connected to any project that benefits and represents the community. Home town proud.

These memorials for veterans not a case of someone write a check and here we go. All in and all done.

No no, it’s a long process to decide where to put it. How to pay for it, to get the locals rallied around the project and to pull off the fund raising. Getting all the names, from died in combat, missing in action, prisoners of war, etc. Don’t leave anyone out or mess up the spelling. Big project to get it right and be respectful to honor the living and deceased veterans of Maine communities.

Memorial For Veterans, The Monuments For Four Maine Communities Joining Forces To Honor Area Vets. No Matter How Recent Or Long Ago The Vet Served. None Are Forgotten.

The Four Corners Veterans Memorial makes you think about raises and lowers the flags or replaces them when it’s time.

There is power to light the memorial monument, grass to keep trimmed, spring raking for winter road sanding to do. Planting flowers and keeping them watered. Respect is what you feel and take the time to stop and study your local Maine veterans monuments. Or get behind efforts to raise funds to erect one if it is missing. To restore one that has been neglected along with veteran sections of local cemeteries scattered around Maine that come in all sizes.

Foot Pavers, Not Just The Black Granite Walls Of Vet Names.Room For Expansion, More To Come On Board To Respect The Vet. To Honor Their Service Now Or Long Ago. Never To Forget The Vet..

Remember the veterans who served.

If more people served, maybe more respect for veterans would happen. Giving some, giving all. It helps increase patriotism, nationalism for the red, white and blue we all hail from no matter what political persuasion or views. Everyday is Veteran’s Day if the sacrifice is not allowed to fade and lose importance. I know as a kid, we visited family graves and it was respectful, not morbid. You saw the rows and rows off straight as an arrow white crosses. Each marked with who served, where, what rank, maybe what battalion or group.

Veteran friendly and appreciative towns, more than a painted plywood sign rider on the welcome to town announcement of where you are in Maine. Thank you veterans in my home town, county, state, country and beyond that fought for freedom. Some gave their live for freedom, the ultimate sacrifice.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com | MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

July 19, 2021
Sign Painters In Small Town Maine

Sign painters in small town Maine.

Allison Britton was one who painted some of his signs in his shop next to Chadwick’s Florist on Spring Street in my small Maine town.

Rise And Shine, New Day To Do What You Were Put On Earth To Do In Your Small Maine Community. Allison Britton Was A Local Maine Sign Painter.

Many of the hand painted sign missions though created from scratch on premise.

My parents along with spud and grain farming their own crops, brokered what other area farmers raised. Mom and Dad bought ten trucks one by one to transport them overnight to produce markets to the south. These trucks lettered outdoors when temperatures were high enough. Inside the barn truck bay during winter with heat on but never above 55 degrees which meant Allison painted with his coat on. Just warm enough for the paint surface to allow the paint to barely cure properly.

Those 18 wheelers needed lettering, consistent branding.

The half circle arch of shaded “Prem Pak” on both doors. The matching font of government ICC GVW 73,280 and vehicle number, Maine town location applied in fresh wet paint by Allison’s steady hand. He smoked a pipe and I can see him sitting on a wooden stool, one hand resting against the trailer truck door. The other one making the strokes to apply the lettering paint. An outline, shading added to the lettering for the finishing touch.

Roll With The Flow, Rise And Drop With Tide. Small Maine Town Living Is Memorable And Rewarding.

The painting watched by an eight year old version of me.

In the original Maine farm barn converted to a truck terminal where the lettering happened in winter. Or admired outside sitting on the same wooden stool or up on the step ladder. Both splattered with a million hues of paint color Allison Britton took turns using to create lettering by free hand.

The local sign painter was busy with both hands.

Drawing a wax crayon reference line to guide the process. To make sure what was in his head for a design and spacing ended up the carbon copy same on the building, vehicle, sign surface.The faint line sketch easily rubbed out was the small Maine town sign painter’s dress rehearsal before fresh paint brushed in long fast deliberate strokes. The trucks got pin striping too. And funny lettering added to the front bumpers. “Home Wrecker”, “Here’s Come Kelley”. “Ole Elmer” for the gas job that donkeyed trailer boxes around the yard or on short hauls. Elmer Snell was Prem Pak’s mechanic.

Truck Letting, Done by Hand. One Man, Allison Britton Lettered All The Prem Pak Trucks.

Dopey was another trailer truck that Allison create a cartoon for that did not have a sleeper.

That over the road truck drivers received an extra thirty five dollars in their weekly salary envelope to spring for a no tell motel if they wanted. Most drives took a cat nap slumped over the wheel. Or laying down on the shot gun seat for a form of rest for the second wind to get back up the pike to the truck terminal.

Like the giant 8 foot tall, 4 foot wide ear of yellow corn.

This one his wife told me years later when I listed their red cape home and detached shop next door where her husband created one of a kind signage. Mrs. Britton told me the sign painting was usually ho hum same old same old.

But her husband loved the chance for something unique and that really provided the chance to create more than sign letters. That involved a picture to tag team with the lettering.

The two words “Farm Fresh” across the top, the ear of corn still wearing it’s green husk with just a hint of the big juicy yellow kernels tucked inside showing.

Teasing, peeking out to tempt the road traffic about a mile and a half outside of town to slow down. Keep it simple. Make it real. Brown and gold tassel silk applied just so on the top of the ear for realism. Peel back ever so seductively by the sign painter’s imagination to briefly show and tell what was hidden underneath.

Come on in, you know you want some.

It’s in season and farm fresh farm to table time. The spot lighted ear of corn suggesting to motorists what could be steamed and boiled for tonight’s supper. New cobbler potatoes, yes, you can buy those by the pound too. But you have to stop. Put on your blinker. Turn here to enter the U shaped driveway to come and get your farm fresh corn.

Sold in a baker’s dozen.

Always 13 ears for good measure. Corn on the cob direct from the local Maine farmer you know and trust. Get it here and don’t forget to check out the just as fresh, home grown tomatoes, cukes, carrots, squash, peas, even strawberries in season.

The ear of perfect size, shape, color and shaded corn on the cob was the trumpet solo. But the hint of more veggies waiting to tempt and be bought to bag up and help load into the shopper’s car.

We even grew yellow eye, Jacob’s cattle, soldier dry beans that could be bought in two pound bags all cleaned and filtered.

Or in large quantities straight out of the field. One of my Dad’s many expressions was “you can’t sell meat from an empty wagon” which mean variety. Have something for everyone in all prices so no one goes away empty handed. The truck farming cash in the economic dead of summer was crucial to keep day to day expenses current.

A Maine potato farmers plants a lot of 100 dollar bills all over the field acreage that the family hopes to recoup.

During the wait, some cold hard currency for the cash and carry comes in handy to tame the farm expenses. A break even year is considered a good year in small Maine farming operations. It means you get to plant again, to tend the next year’s crop to get it harvested and sold out of the field. Or carefully stored for slowly loading one truck at a time to head to the produce markets further south on Interstate 95.

More Space, Less People, More Wildlife. That’s Simple Living In Maine.

Back to the small Maine town sign painter that my parents hired a lot for many reasons.

His daughter dated a boy up the street on Commonwealth Avenue. And when he walked her home from school, he would stop into the painter’s shop her Dad ran next door to where he said good bye. To watch with awe and to learn how the painting process starts and ends. To eventually not marry his daughter, but to catch the spark and become a sign painter for his profession. And witness less and less actual hand painted signage performed and more computer generated graphics that standardized the sign making process.

Before computer assistance and back when you needed talent to do hand painted signs, everything was created piece meal.

You could have a printer create multiple copies but the original was from scratch. All the signs at the grocery stores, car dealers, down at the Grange or along Main Street was done by small local Maine sign painters. Allison Britton create a wall mural of Christ’s last supper that I think when we listed and sold his widow’s home, that masterpiece went to the local Catholic church. It was amazing and I bet something more interesting to create than just a trailer truck door lettering job caused for a creative stir.

A Little Maine Color Spices Up The Landscape Scenery.

I have talked with house painters who love to apply the colors.

To do the scraping, the scaffolding to prepare to get down to the nitty gritty of putting on the paint. They love to paint and stand back to admire their work. Square it up. To make sure no spots were missed, that the paint goes on evenly. Protect and make the house admired from out on the curb. To do it’s part for neighborhood appeal from out on the street.

Do you like to paint on any level?

Stain or paint your own porch or deck or interior walls and trim? New color schemes, old traditional paint styles and excitement pulling out the tall skinny samples. Nothing transforms like a fresh coat of paint and a mowed lawn when you’re talking listing, selling a Maine home. Allison Britton, the story of one small Maine town sign painter who left his mark.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

July 9, 2021
Agricultural State Fairs In Maine

Agricultural state fairs in Maine, they are underway around Vacationland.

Many were scaled way back or not held at all during the pandemic. But the COVID virus is in the rear view mirror and all around the state folks are returning to traditional life. Here’s the list, the circuit of agricultural state fairs in Maine. This blog posts to showcase what happens going into an local agricultural state fair and why they are so important to the area of Maine where they happen.

What Would You Do With This Maine Farm Land Acreage? Critters Or Crops?

Maine has a deep, rich tradition roots with family agricultural farming.

The lumbering of forest tracts and timbering vast tracts is right up there too. Managing your woodlot is a big way of our life when you are 91 percent wooded too. And we won’t leave out the vital importance of the Maine fishing industry. How important harvesting what’s below the water off the coast of Maine is at meal time and for the state’s tourism.

Hi. Maine Dairy Cows Itching To Get Turned Out, To Kick Up Their Heels, To Roll In And Eat The New Spring Field Clover.

Farming in Maine, there was a time when the state was number one in agricultural food production.

In small farming communities around the state of Maine, it was not uncommon to need the ten fingers of both hands to list them all. Up and down each country road you could recite the small family farms in Maine that worked the dirt. Those folks who carved out a living from agriculture. Feeding others, being a farmer is and always was a noble profession. Now less than two percent of individuals grow the food consumed by the masses. There was a time in Maine when ninety six percent of folks tilled the soil and worked, raised families on farmsteads. Maine is right up there with a resurgence of micro farming. The average age of the national farmer is pushing sixty years of age.

Working For Winter Clothes, That Jacket, To Help Out Family Expenses. Kids Learn Work Ethic Early On In Small Town Rural Maine.

The number of small family farm spreads dotting the countryside around Vacationland was pretty impressive.

It’s why the Grange hall was big in membership and the Future Farmer Of America chapters flourished. In Northern Maine, schools went in three weeks earlier than the rest of the state. To close for the same amount of time so students could help area farmers harvest their potato crops. Many a kid earned their winter jackets, helped out with the family needs by picking potatoes for area farmers.

Farming in Maine is such a big part of the state’s history and locals cherish the rich experiences learned by being part of area agricultural operations.

Baby beef, sheep, goat, raising chickens and egg production on a small scale and large truck gardens. They all are enjoyed as a big part of the simple lifestyle of farm to table living in rural Maine. So it is no wonder that state agricultural farm fairs are popular around Maine.

Here’s the list of 26 licensed Maine state agricultural fairs for 2021.

Kids chasing a piglet with the winner who lands one in the burlap bag getting to keep it. Can I Mom and Dad? He’s so cute. Oink. What’s that about you think I should call him Bacon? Hamchops? Why’s everyone laughing? 4H exhibits, baby beef, sheep being sheered for their woo. Ribbons in all colors awarded for everything from bread and butter pickles to dried flowers.

Quilting, art, photography, home cook food competitions. Raising goats, rabbits, chickens means responsibilities on a Maine farm and everyone in the family has a job. All the Maine farm family members are important parts of the agriculture operation.

Maine Farm Sheep. Beating The Heat Wearing Summer Wool On A Maine Farm.

Bored, Wishing They Had Some Wire Cutters To Take A Vacation From The Pen.

Tractor and horse pulls, oxen displays, demolition derbies, vendors peddling fair food of all kinds.

Have a dough boy, sprinkled with confectioners white powdered sugar. My favorite, the Italian sausage smothered in onions, mingling with green and red peppers sauteed on the grill. Everyone hungry? Local service and church clubs have hot dog booths and burger wagons and you know the folks that take your order in small Maine towns. I’ll be on the Rotary gate to the park for a shift or two to exchange money for ticks to the state fair in my hometown this weekend. Everyone pitches in and helps make the local event home grown special.

Working Together On The Land In Maine. Amish Families Resettle In Vacationland To Strengthen Local Agriculture.

Take a number and socialize with others you see on the state fair agriculture midway while waiting for the food order preparation.

Fireworks, little miss and mister firecracker pageants when your Maine agricultural state fair happens to land around the 4th of July. Exhibits of all types, car shows, carnival rides depending on COVID restrictions or the size of your fair. And farm tractors new and old appeal to a big segment of the fair audience who worked with them growing up. Someone’s Uncle or Grandfather owned a Maine farm spread and everyone has memories haying, picking potatoes, raking blueberries, repairing fencing, haying, etc.

Barns In Maine, Some Store Bought From Sears And Roebuck. Others Hand Hewn Post And Beams Created On Site.

Have you ever been to the agricultural state fair in Maine called the Common Ground?

2021 is the 50th anniversary of the Common Ground Fair. The multi day state fairs in Maine require year round planning. Sometimes insurance to be taken out to hedge the bet because so much is riding on the gate size and event coming off without a hitch. The living off the land lifestyle of simplicity. To appreciate the basics and what is real, all natural and not store brought. The Common Ground Fair is worth the annual t-shirt, the experience so many share so freely for the skill set gleaned from the agriculture “down on the farm” lifestyle.

Big Barns In Maine. They Fall To Their Knees If Not Maintained.

The state fairs in Maine have to have a full slate of activities and events to be well rounded to appeal to all ages year after year.

Fireworks, horse harness races and shows, parades, craft exhibits, carnival rides all are part of the state fair agricultural in Maine circuits. The cooperative extensive service, 4H, Future Farmers group all come together with the Maine agriculture families to celebrate rural living.

Treats, Fair Food, What’s Your Favorite? Cotton Candy, Dough Boys Or Grilled Sausages Smothered In Onions And Peppers?

More on Maine agricultural fairs, kicked off with the one coming up this weekend in Houlton ME.

Here is the link to the Houlton State Fair website. Beef, dairy, goat, alpaca shows are listed on the events list. Tractor pulls, open stage musical event, fireworks to cap it all off on our Nation’s 4th of July celebration. If you can sneak up into “The County”, see you this weekend at the lead in Houlton State Agriculture Fair for the 26 on the circuit around Vacationland.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

June 29, 2021
Maine School Graduations, Now What?

Maine school graduations, now what?

The square hats thrown in the air, the gowns used once and tucked away in closets. Ready or now, here he and she goes out into the wild blue yonder. What you need to not just survive life but to benefit those around you. Making a difference in a million small ways. Having some fun along the way. What advice for new graduates of Maine high school and area colleges could you provide anyone who would listen?

Graduates Of Maine High Schools And Colleges, Go Forth And Prosper.

Keep your eyes and ears open. Look down and see the path you are on is well beaten or scarcely used. Make decisions considering the consequences. Don’t take yourself too seriously but know you can be part of something beautiful if you stick with it. My Dad’s University of Maine commencement speaker told his college crowd of graduates congratulations and I hope you know adversity early on in life to benefit from it. Charmed lives, no set backs is not what to expect if you truly wish to stretch and grow. Learning takes a lifetime right?

Attitude is everything in life.

Your outlook can be Eeyore or optimistic. Staying happy, content, focused won’t be popular with everyone around you though. As soon as you start meeting your own needs, there will be those who don’t like it. Relationships, are they toxic, encouraging and does the signal go both ways for mutual benefit. You are in it for the long term right? Patience is a virtue. Living in a small Maine town has you better prepared than most rural graduates realize. Be proud of your roots and the skill set you developed because of small Maine town living.

Living In A Small Maine Town. Kids Learn Skills, To Pitch In And Everything Not Handed To Them.

I think back on lessons learned from my parents. Dad reminding the four boys to get your sleep, hang loose and don’t get shook up. Mom, easy does it and moderation rules the day. Stick with it, read, learn, stay the course. Growing up on a Maine farm and staying on that patch of family dirt takes fortitude, creativity, focus and plan “B”, “C” to quickly shift gears the plan for the day ahead suddenly changes. Roll with the punches. Rise to the occasion. Be your best. It is all about others. Your best teachers growing up where your hardest. That knew you could do better and challenged you to reach deeper, search harder and produce a higher quality output.

Changing the world, volunteering and making ends meet to live a little below your means.

To save that nest egg and expect bumps, dips in the road ahead. See and expect the curves life will throw at you right? Are you better at giving advice than taking it though? Like dieting, what you need to do long term is loaded with high calorie and carb temptations. Peer pressure, that refrigerator calling your name during movie commercial breaks. Just one more piece and I’ll work it off tomorrow. Fibbing, rationalizing to ourselves is taking place on a large scale. Be true to thyself.

Cut To The Chase, Maine Frankness Keeps It Simple And Honest.

The village in small town Maine is a big part of the education outside the high school or college institution hallways. The education is all around you to feast on if you make the time to look for it. Make the most of what you have rather than always wanting something you don’t. Don’t grade people or put them in bins of good or bad or somewhere inbetween.

You learn a lot about the person dishing out the advice to Maine school graduates.

Sometimes it is a politician using the opportunity to well wish and provide words of wisdom but also to advance an agenda. Don’t turn cynic, but look for red flags and the spin. But no one wants to be “sold” anything. Sincere how can I help you without the cameras or credit. The rich snippets of how to live live, ways to improve it are gleaned in the private moments with someone who has logged a few more sunrises and sunsets. Tap into that resource around you of well traveled and seasoned individuals and you can save yourself needless missteps. Or to know you are on the right course after all when doubt floods the gray matter behind the eyes and between the ears.

Freedom On A Maine Beach. Winter Helped The Pandemic Spacing On The Sand. Spend Time Alone Or In Small Groups Not Just Large Crowds. It’s The Way Rural Maine Rock And Rolls.

If it is easy, where’s the reward in that?

Ditch the entitlement, the it has to be entertaining and thinking everything is going to be fun and games. A feeling of satisfaction from a job well done. Not just once but for the rest of your life when you set your mind to be the best. Ego, turn down the volume but reason it is part of what drives you good and bad. Folks that are better at something than you. Don’t hate them, embrace them and learn all your can. The education is just beginning and not stopping when you move the gold or white or whatever color tassel from one side to the other from the square hat you perch on your noggin for a temporary lid.

Don’t expect easy but it does not have to be made harder than it really is.

But it will be if you fight it, don’t think you should have to be going through this. That’s feeling sorry for yourself that never produces anything of value. It takes the spotlight off what is really important at any given time.

Horsepower, A Pair To Pull The Potato Digger Through The Maine Farm Field.

Go along to get along and don’t stand up in the boat or cause it to rock needless. Sit down, close the pie hole and open up the ear canals. Actively listen and know there is much to learn that you don’t know. Blind spots, perfect imperfection, thank God we are not all alike or life would be very boring and highly predictable. If you strive to be happy, you will be told by some to cut it out. Asked what are you so happy about? Remember, you may have no idea what they have been going through or how life is treating them. Love them anyway, say a prayer for them but don’t let them steal your joy. Hold the door open anyway and strive to find ways to make their day a tad brighter because you should and can. Be a mentor. Have lots of mentors.

What is going to happen next?

The jury is out on that one folks but believe more good than bad will be the score at the end of the day. Start the next one with a clean shaken Etch-O-Sketch. Don’t let yesterday if it was not one of your best ruin the next. Look for the good. Be a team player and pitch in. All the time. Your effort is contagious and collectively major mountains can be moved shoulder to shoulder.

Pure White, All Natural Not Man Made Snow. Maine Winter Is Coming, Locals Are Excited. You Learn Much In The Solitude Reflection.

Expectations. Are they realistic?

Down to Earth and not too lofty or quick fix slam bang works best in your approach. You may know it but do you throw in the clutch, slide your stick into the right forward gear to achieve heading in that direction? Read, develop your faith, be sincere and remember we are all in this together for the greater good. The best is yet to be. That’s my advice for Maine school graduates.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

June 17, 2021
Orono Bog Boardwalk | Maine Hiking Trails

Orono Bog Boardwalk, Maine hiking trails.

Looking for something healthy to do and in the Bangor / Brewer / Orono area of Maine? This blog post highlights the over six hundred acres, more than 4200′ feet of floating decking known as the Orono Bog Boardwalk.

Welcome To The Orono Bog Boardwalk in Penobscot County Maine.

The boardwalk technically starts at the wetland edge of the Bangor City Forest.

But within 800′, you cross the Orono town line. The section of the Orono Bog Boardwalk in the town of Orono is owned by the University of Maine where both Meg and I went to school.

Meg and I did a quick overnight “staycation” in Bangor Maine this past Saturday and spent walk the trail for about 90 minutes on the Orono Bog Boardwalk.

The iron bars to grab near the table land or summit. No blue dashes of a hike up Abol trail at Mt Katahdin all missing. No big hills, the four foot wild section of decking creating the bog walk pathway are easy to maneuver. The low impact walk through the forest sections is all wide, easy to traverse pathways.

Orono Bog Tree Size, Meg Helps Show How Big This Smasher Is.

Through out the Orono Bog Boardwalk experience, lots of signage explains which birds, what other wildlife and various vegetation types you will find here.

Bring your camera and forget any fear of getting lost. The signage maps make it crystal clear where you are, where you can head depending on the time you allow for the Orono Bog Boardwalk.

Wide, Easy Walking Trails Criss Cross And Connect The Orono Bog Boardwalk.

The boardwalk is for walkers, wheelchair access users only.

We did see foot traffic hikers with leashed dogs on the wooded trail sections. Thousands of hours and dollars went into the Orono Bog Boardwalk creation and improvements.

Lady Slipper Wild Flowers, One Of The Many You See At Your Orono Bog Walk.

QR code maps sync you up with the network of trails so no repeat worries about what happened to Goldie Locks.

The 509 sections of composite decking that ride on aluminum rails, stainless steel footings have rest stop seating areas. Learn more about the Orono Bog Boardwalk.

The Many Flowers You See On Your Orono Bog Walk. Don’t Forget To Bring Your Camera!

Lady slippers, Labrador tea, cinnamon ferns, cranberry, bog rosemaryy, tuffed cotton grass, round leave sundew.

The Orono Bog Boardwalk offers up to 140 examples of wildflower species. Lincoln’s sparrows, palm warblers, so many small mammals and amphibians along with random moose or bear might be seen on your bog walk.

The Information Spelled Along The Orono ME Bog Woods Trail Hike.

The tall healthy pine trees impressed me at the Orono Bog Boardwalk.

Many starting out as one large trunk and then splitting into two as they reached for the sky hungry for sunshine. Winterberry, black ash, oak, red maple along with beech, white birch. Lots of other hard or softwood forest examples provide the scenery and shade along your bog walk. Talk about vegetation and no bugs, no flies. Picked a good day or just kept cuffing along to stay ahead of them. There was breeze and the boardwalk was not over crowded with tourists or locals who frequent this venue.

Looking Out Over the Peat Bog In Orono Maine. Lots Of Life Happening As You Look Closer.

The Orono Maine raised peat Bog Boardwalk is designated as a National Natural Landmark by the National Park service.

30,000 visitors walk the mile long boardwalk that is a popular local exercise option. Learn more about the natural aspects, the history of the Orono Bog Boardwalk.

Excellent Family Fun Option, The Orono Bog Boardwalk Hike.

When is the bog open for walks, contemplation and a sense of wild wide open space?

Closed during the winter, here are the hours of operation for the Orono Bog Boardwalk. The Orono Bog Boardwalk is roughly 1.3 miles from the Bangor Mall. It offers a variety of Maine hiking trails to explore and to keep it new and different for all ages of walkers. Fresh air, scenery and always something new to learn. Added by the friends of the Orono Bog Boardwalk. Folks and local area businesses who donate so much effort and funding to this near peat bog area of Maine.

The Things You Learn And See On Your Bog Walk In Penobscot County Maine.

Frequent visits are possible because no long multi hour travel time is involved for those living in the Bangor, Brewer, Orono area of Penobscot County Maine.

Over 600 Acres, So Much Effort And Funding Put Into The Orono Bog Boardwalk.

Heading to Acadia National Park less than an hour to the south in the Bar Harbor area offers more hiking exercise if you want more.

Have a lobster. steamed clams and a local brew while on the waterfront along the Maine coast. Baxter Park to the north is an hour away to access all the hiking trails around Mt Katahdin, Maine’s tallest mountain. Maine is outdoors. Maine is the way life should be. Hope you enjoyed this blog post sharing of our walk along the trails of the Orono Bog Boardwalk in Penobscot County.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

May 31, 2021