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  • Fishing In Maine, How To Find The Secret Spots To Wet The Line.

    Gone fishing, in Maine. Could mean using a Jiffy ice auger to open up a Maine lake.

    Or wearing waders, casting a line in a brook while toking on a cigar you don’t smoke for the buzz. But for the smoke to keep pesky black flies at bay when they are flying squadrons of sorties around your head.

    Not Stuck Inside, Moving Around Outside In Maine.
    Outside, Moving, Catching A Ride To Maine Fishing Adventure.

    Maybe fishing in Maine spikes a slide that splashes on the back of the inside of your head.

    Of you, loved ones, rocking and a reelin’ in something big off the coast of Maine. Or lucky enough to find yourself working as a third hand on a Maine lobster boat.

    Where the denizen of the deep is going to steamed, slid on to your plate at meal time that evening when you get back on dry land.

    Regardless of the type of fishing in Maine you like best, you need some guidance.

    The locals all know from experience. You are brand new and have a blank etch – o -sketch. Need someone to coax and nudge you in the right direction.

    Maine Deer, Moose, Wildlife.
    Your Neighbors Four Legged, Furry, Curious, Shy. Watch You Fish.

    So you don’t waste time you don’t have because it is a short, limited vacation in Maine.

    Hear that clock ticking loudly, the hour glass sands shifting from the top to the bottom? The leisure time in Maine passes too quickly for sure.

    Don’t be a Johnny One Time. Keep coming back for more.

    Bud Adams, a local fish-o-holic had the addiction bad.

    Not just hunting it down to eat it on Fridays like some folks still do. Round the clock, every season possible to fish for supper. He is fishing in the great beyond now but when he shuffled his feet here on planet Earth, he ran a radiator repair shop.

    His motto? A question.

    “Where’s the best place to take a leak in Houlton Maine?”

    Why Adams Radiator of course silly.

    Maine Lake Fun May Involve A Boat.
    Maine. You Ready To Get Wet?

    But with his bald as a bowling ball head would grin and start the fishing tutorial with a simple statement. If you are serious about your angling, you have to think like a fish.

    What time of day would you be where in the Maine lake?

    What rock looks like a good place for treading water and snoozing away from prey or a colorful fishing lure that was too tempting?

    Brookies, fishing for brook trout in Maine. Open fishing with your passed down fly rod or the new one that costs way way more than two and a quarter brooks of green stamps.

    If that is your weapon of choice, you might try casting in Dead Stream in Monticello Maine if you find yourself in Aroostook County. Trolling for land lock salmon in East Grand Lake sounds like a stellar notion too.

    Maine Small Town Living, Walk Around Freely.
    Not Telling Where He Caught The Maine Fish. Actually His Brother Snag It On Nickerson Lake, But Let Wally Have Bragging Rights in A Photo Opt!

    Sometimes the water levels are so so high from spring run off, the melting of snow from Old Man winter.

    And it makes the kayaks and canoe races get over earlier with lightning fast times. Whether you are a black belt or no belt paddler.

    But getting close to the edge of the waterway can be harder when the water levels interfere with the up close and personal.

    Here are the dates for open fishing in Maine. Don’t forget to introduce the little ones, or just those who missed getting the fishing bug fever.

    There are lots of free fishing dates in Maine to take advantage of if you can clear the schedule.

    Some anglers think there are too many regulations and the Maine state fishing regulations are way way too complicated.

    But don't forget, remember that we are dealing with thousands of waters statewide and that each is just a tad different. Like the people, soils, views, everything in Maine. Fishing to protect a natural resource is no exception and yup. Maine is very touch on being a good steward of what we all know we are so so lucky to have and enjoy. Getting kids to fishing derbies and to start out with training wheels on heavily stocked Maine ponds. So their arms almost hurt from the casting, catching and do it again. That is what starts the pattern, tradition of heading off to go fishing in Maine. On the family farm in Maine I grew up on, a soil conservation grant funded pond was used for just that purpose. To turn kids on to fishing. To make sure they had strong strikes of constant nibble to pull in and grin. It was a water source for a fire in the country too.

    The Inland Fisheries and Wildlife people are just trying to give anglers a variety of quality Maine fishing opportunities while ensuring the resource does not go extinct for our children.

    [caption id="attachment_3007" align="alignleft" width="300"]Maine Lobsters, Some Too Big, Or With Notched Tails Have To Return To The Ocean. Maine Lobsters, One Of The Top Three Word Associations With The State.[/caption] The ones that have not appeared on the scene yet or ever baited a hook. Selected the right fishing lure. Or had a Mickey or Minnie Mouse rod and reel in their small hands. To feel the thrill of fishing what's done deep in a Maine waterfront resource with a skilled guide they call Grampie, Papa, Aunt Jane or whatever the nick name of affection.
    Check out the Maine lakes survey as one of the guides to selecting your next fishing outing at one of the sixteen counties nearest your location. And mind your P's and Q's. Be friendly, will you? Can you? Using sugar works better than vinegar for getting a local in a small Maine town to open up. And maybe the stand back, little reserved atmosphere when someone you meet is a tad cool to you is because some other vehicle driver with a plate the same color as yours has burned some bridges.

    Stepped on a few nerves, hurt someone's feelings when asked curtly, "Hey dummy, where's the best places to fish in Maine?"

    And came off Interstate 95 veering sharply on just two wheels by the time they hit the bottom of the exit off ramp. "Hurry it up, don't have all day" does not get the results you need for local info on the best fishing holes. If the local will share them to you, anybody. Considered yourself lucky to be in Maine! I'm Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers

    207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

    MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton Maine 04730

  • Homesteading In Maine, Been Happening For Years.

    Homesteading in Maine, living off the land with the birds and the bees, all these trees.

    Is not something only tie dye wearing folks from out of state did back in the late 1960’s early 1970’s. While an unpopular war raged on.

    The image of someone heading north on the highways twisting and turning through Maine in a VW micro bus, a couple thick Mother Earth News or Whole Earth catalogs riding on the dashboard. The mission, a burning desire to get closer to the Canadian border that surrounds Maine on three sides.

    "X" Marks The Spot For Crow Hill Linneus ME
    “X” Marks The Spot For Crow Hill Linneus ME

    No AC cooling the vehicle space but all the windows down and the little triangles up front cranked to catch a breeze. Harness the momentum of the highway travel north up into Vacationland.

    Pass me another Moon Pie would you and a tin of pop, an Orange Crush or Fanta to wash it down along with the road dust will you please and thank you?

    With Arlo Guthrie, Melanie or Jerry Garcia, someone taking a turn through tinny tiny speakers providing the tuneage. The background sound.

    Maybe Canned Head explaining the life and death, do or die need to get out into the country. I’m gonna do just that.

    Seeking a place to roost like underpopulated, sparse but heavily wooded rural Maine. Where Maine land is almost in endless supply and priced so so low to the ground.

    Getting away to unplug, recharge, breathe. Hear yourself think. To avoid the suffocation of the city that can choke a person, drive them black flies in spring crazy. Suffocation, not to be confused with another long “S” word, a classic RIP Bowie’s Suffragette City.

    There were five young men fresh out of school and ready to take on the World. To set it on fire and make a difference, take their bite of the apple. Create a new untraveled path. One lad returned home to New Jersey where the gang all hailed from, roamed the halls, went to high school.  After a stint in California. To round up his personal belongings and head west to the coast or maybe British Columbia. He had a classic case of wanderlust.

    maine winter photo
    Not As Much Ice On Maine Lakes. Still Ice Shacks, Fishing Through A Hole Underway During A Mild Temperature, Snow Load Too Winter.

    While home in Jersey, he hit up his buddies and heard about a land auction going on this weekend in New York.

    For 200 acres of land in Linneus Maine.

    A place dubbed Crow Hill that was located on the back way to Oakfield on a stretch of Aroostook County back woods. Before wind generators and similar modifications to the Bagdad like Highway that was a buck board ride. Like after some progressive B-52 thorough carpet bombing treatment rained down from up in the clouds.

    The land in Maine for sale cost $7500 for 200 acres of property sans buildings.

    There was another $500 needed for the freight, to settle up and pay the damage for the esquire, for the legal beagle to officiate the paperwork exchange to be recorded at the registry of deeds..

    The lads did not possess pockets lined with gold. But collectively, if they dug deep enough, they could each scrounge up their share of the $8000 split five ways Evie Stevie. Stop the auction, put in our bid and they did.

    Got themselves a chunk of Northern Maine land bought by joining forces. Doing what the group together but not the individuals could pull off alone.

    So suddenly, on a whim life took a turn for the five man band that pointed the loaded to the gills pick up north to cross the big green bridge heading into Maine. Whew, you made it, the way life should be. Maine.

    Whole Earth Catalog
    (Sang Way Way Off Key) “Whole Earth In Your Hand… You Have The …. “

    Destination Linneus Maine, a patch of hilltop woods where “Crow Hill Lodge” was built from scratch.

    Just over the valley from Meduxnekeag Lake that makes locals scratch their head that on maps is labeled Drews Lake. Other lakes near by scattered in the other three compass directions around this 200 acres of high top Maine land.

    The boys each turn turns with the construction tools and together pieced together the post and beam barn like structure. I asked one of the original Crow Hill members if any of them were trained to be carpenters.

    Nope.

    None a Bob Vila. Average shop class students. But they went into a NJ housing development or two, toured a few places, the model homes and the framed early versions. Took pictures, made notes. All she wrote. The whole nine yards. That was their bootstrap training full of ambition, buckets of youthful hope and a lot of wetness still behind their ears.

    Crow Hill Lodge, the mansion. Did not happen, go up quickly when money was scarce, knowledge was limited. It took years to take shape. And winters off happened where four of the five went south to look for work. That interruption cooled their jets. After local potato house, woods work took it’s toll on the majority and dulled their enthusiasm as the newness wore off. And familiarity with each other built contempt.

    You hunt and pecked for what you could with what there was that was meager jobs in Northern Maine and not so financially rewarding happens in the weekly pay envelope. It is why Maine land is so cheap, has to be teasingly attractive and alluring.

    Hard work, time to think, reflect on was this the right move and should I go sideways. in a new direction, usually back south played on the backs of the insides of all five original Crow Hill lodge, mansion creators.

    Maine Social Media.
    Maine Explained With Social Media Examples.

    With pot auger, a bohemian existence underway to survive. Salt and peppered with around the clock frugality.

    Bill Bernat stayed behind to tend the home fires and scratch out a living locally high on the hill covered with a blanket of pure white Maine winter snow.

    The band eventually disbanded. The music of the rattle and hum excitement soured. In-fighting and the silent treatment both worked together to buzz kill the dream of the Crow Hill Mansion. It had been a long hard haul.

    The place left empty for a spell until listed, we sold the big land tract and structure. To a fellow from the same state where the auction for Crow Hill was held back in 1971.

    It now being the early 1980’s during a time of 16.5% adjustable interest rates for mortgages. And A Derek Content, his wife Rosa decided to give hill top living a shot.

    Derek dealt in rare manuscripts, selling early historical artifacts to colleges, universities and to private collectors. Gems, other collectibles not found at your typical Saturday morning Maine garage sale were bought and sold overseas too. He made a good living but was gone like a merchant marine half the year.

    He knew seven languages, was from Holland originally and did not have a driver’s license when he landed in Linneus Maine. Relying easily on NYC mass transit for his moving, shaking, grooving to get from point A to point B. Using silver birds to make a living too. Rosa was from Puerto Rico.

    Maine Fall Foliage Colors.
    Maine Is Rich Colors, Simple Pleasures, Natural Beauty.

    I showed him the Crow Hill “Mansion” real estate using a 1980 Polaris snow sled with Derek on the back holding on. And with my pleadings forcing him to put on a winter wool cap. He was not dressed, not  prepared for the harsh realities of outdoor Maine in winter weather.

    The bright orange hat to protect his exposed ears from frost bite on a nippy Northern Maine winter day where you could see your breath. Every time it exhaled.

    They created a daughter together named Phillipa. Ended up untying the marital knot with Rosa moving in town, creating a new pad over the now Hollywood Pet Salon on the corner of Main and Mechanic Streets in downtown Houlton Maine. Leaving Linneus Maine in the rear view mirror.

    But before the parting of ways lots of money invested.

    Plowed into improving the mile long private steadily rising road, finishing off the Crow Hill structure and adding supporting outbuildings to feather the small family’  nest. Their home sweet home.

    Maine Is Four Seasons, Always Outdoors.
    Being Able To Hear Yourself Think Is Easier In Maine.

    Slowly accumulating more Maine land too. To protect and insulate the holdings up here in Northern Maine. That was one of a kind.

    Where you entertain yourself, your living room, all the real entertainment is parked outdoors pretty much all four seasons in Maine.

    Never being afraid of being different, but more concerned, afraid of being like everyone else.

    That’s one story of homesteading, starting an off grid, back to the land property in Northern Maine. Hit us up for lots more where those came from that should be hunt and pecked about in the days ahead.

    Thank you for following our Me In Maine blog post stream.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

    207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

    MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton ME 04730

  • The Colors Of Maine, Not All Found Just Naturally Outdoors.

    Maine is a lot of blue water, skies and add a zillion shades of green.

    A dash of browns and explosions of bright fall foliage colors as the temperature dips preparing all of us in Maine for the approaching winter. But colors, not everyone has white houses with black shutters either.

    Maine Stained Glass.
    Maine Is Colorful, The People, The Places, The Properties.

    Especially as you venture up into the St John River Valley in Northern Maine’s Aroostook County. Where no one is afraid of splashing on the colors and vivid exteriors are common as you ply up and down small Maine town streets where French is the primary language in many neighborhoods.

    But the colors, can be stained glass from quality tradesmen’s handiwork designed to last long after the creator has left the Earth. This red with frosted, cut out grape design from Bath Maine. In the front of the home parked next to the Maine Maritime Museum.

    The colors of buoys in Maine that mark the lobster pots, fishing nets and traps below the ocean surface have some bright shades too.

    Tell a story about a particular region. Tackling a lobster pot that is not yours is akin to cattle rustling. Stealing, poaching is bad business in Maine and does not win you a hearty invite to a baked beans and brown bread supper either.

    maine fishing buoys colors
    The Sea Of Color, Each Coastal Region Of Maine Uses Different Patterns, Shades To Mark Fishing Territory.

    To see when the visibility is poor or pretty much missing. The colors means something special and are not just random whatever paint applied from whatever was lying around the workshop at the time.

    And are so important to find your way back to the compass coordinates that spell it all out.

    Where those pots, baited lobster traps were dropped into the drink. To attract lobsters to come inside to sample the rotting fish used as bait to razzle dazzle them.

    So the lobster traps will be full of the green succulent fish that the World hankers from Maine.

    maine lobsters photo
    Fresher Lobster Than This? Only What’s Still Underwater, Swimming Along The Maine Ocean Floor.

    There are close to 6000 lobstermen in Maine bobbing, working, boating the open sea.

    Relying on these colorful buoys to eek out a living from whatever they can harvest from the deep. At the helm of something powered by a diesel motor with a lady’s name plastered on each side of the bow or sideways on the aft.

    Out working on the open rolling sea pummeled by wind gusts and hard weather conditions that equal the market price that has to exceed the expenses.

    Or oh oh. No more Maine fisherman. Just like no more Maine farmer if the numbers are in the red for too long and going belly up occurs.

    Maine Housing Is Impressive.
    The House On The River Bank, At The Maine Maritime Museum.

    Picking Maine potatoes, working the farm fields inland from the coast makes the colors of the navigation markets and fishing buoys seem foreign.

    More on that topic at this helpful link.

    Now I am thinking fish dinner, something caught in the wild from Maine!

    Now how did that happen?

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

    207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

    MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton ME 04730

     

  • How To Handle A Nudist Next Door To You In Maine?

    How To Handle A Nudist Next Door To You In Maine?

    Maine is a four season state and most of us spend as much time as possible outdoors but not as nudists.

    Fresh air, clean water, all this Maine four season scenery is not to be wasted stuck inside four walls, under a steep pitched roof to shed the snow and rain. Losing clothing as the temperature rises. Adding garment articles when it goes the other way.

    maine river water falls photo
    The Winter Run Off Of Snow Makes The Faster Paced Spring Canoe & Kayak Races

    And not a lot of people in your face or all this space in Maine makes life less crowded or so hurry scurry for those thinking clothing is optional.

    But nudists in Maine.

    When one thinks about nippy Maine weather and the mercury sitting a little lower in the glass tube, the lone Pine Tree State does not strike you as the best place to practice that lifestyle.

    Where you take it off, take it all off.

    To be naked and exposed. Not worrying about if colors match or patterns clash.

    Walking around the inside of your private home sans clothing is one thing. But letting it all hang out outside in even the pucker brush of Maine may seem unlikely or not very common place. Because like most hobbies, you want to enjoy them year round. Wind chill and body part exposure cause frost bite and loss of limbs and the extremities.

    Oh sure we have your lake skinny dippers that go well up into their 80’s swimming like otters and fish,  Maine loons. Not just teenagers feeling frisky under the moonlight out at Lover’s Look Out.

    The older seasoned practicing but specialized limited nudists. With their daily practice of swim strokes but their body without the skin tight Speedo applied under water for most of the daily work out. No drag from bulky swim gear to slow down or affect the work out.

    Know of a wood lot in Ludlow I was selling and hearing from neighbors about an off grid homesteader who daily would jog just wearing her sneakers. Only the piggies covered up and protected.

    maine lake photo
    When It Is Less People, More Peace And Quiet Happens in Maine.

    Moving faster perhaps, having a better, harder work out because of Maine black flies pushing her along, helping her set the pace.

    Winter purifies and makes it simpler living too. Old Man Winter and his helpful Jack Frost take care of Maine having poison this or harmful that spiders, insects, snakes.

    Many things need heat, temperatures to soar to grow and survive. The colder temperature nip that in the bud and cure many ills we don’t need but that tropical climates have to contend with because of being a ripe culture to foster it. To watch it mushroom like it or not.

    We bundle up and dress appropriately in Maine.

    Nudists in Maine. We kinda modest and private. And the cold limits the outdoor nudist time outside to flaunt in their jaunts exposed in just their birthday suits. Naked as a jay bird.

    But nudists in Maine do pop up and happen occasionally. Not like Orient Beach or this list of top ten nudist favorite beaches for that over all tan and no lines where clothing starts or leaves off. Where less to mess with for laundry because if you are not wearing your skivvies they don’t get dirty right?

    Maine Lake Loons.
    Drift, Glide, Pop Up And Down Fishing. Maine Loons Dressed In A Black And White Tuxedo.

    Had a listing on a camp in Orient Maine on East Grand Lake that was very attractive and made the phone ring, the email server to heat up red hot.

    But once the buyer’s doubled back and learned from asking around the local grapevine about how are the neighbors, they turned white and ran. Everything went dead and the hot to trot turned very ice cold. The property got the cold shoulder so to speak from real estate waterfront property buyers.

    The nudist next door was a turn off for someone with small children. Or that could tolerate the lifestyle but just not sharing property lines doing it up close and personal. Never saw a performance but the legend preceded and out lived my waterfront property listing agreement.

    Another Maine lake camper who had a neighbor to share the water frontage recreational with who was a nudist. Who had a problem just like the lady with the tequila consumption.

    And the same there go the clothes that happened to her threads but as she chug-a- lugged. Wearing nothing but a smile. There was a unique remedy for this practicing nudist neighbor. That did not need the sauce to loosen up and to cause clothing to melt, fall away either.  It was an attention getting sport.

    Every time that neighbor’s lawnmower fired up and roared into life and bare butt grass cutting started, the neighbor went under cover. Camo and John Rambo cat like instincts took over. He had some training courtesy of Uncle Sam and more than a four year hitch in the service. Because of being an expert sniper in the middle east, he became adept at going below radar. Hunting for nudists in Maine? He really did not relish the idea but it was more taking control of matters not in his hands. But protecting the neighborhood. He went dark and invisible with the war paint, the crouching low to sneak up on his targets in the protective cover of boundary line bushes. Laying in a prone position to acquire the target. To paint the objective with the red dot.

    maine farm calf cow
    What’s Brown And White And Surrounded By Green? You See Lots Of These Among Maine Farmscapes.

    With his professional grade pellet gun and scope acquiring a naked moving target of body parts.

    To ping ping ping in sensitive areas of the naked lawnmower parading, marching back and forth. No one visible looking around but causing the neighbor cutting grass in the nude to stop and put on shorts. To continue mowing the lawn without the copper pellet sting welts on his middle part of his body from bee bees that hailed his way.

    Another woman who like to make sure every inch of her bronze body stayed tanned to the hilt had a neighbor with a game camera. That was hooked up to his big screen flat surface television. And when the sun was high over head and she came out on the open deck next door to his lake shore paradise, he went inside with his buddies to admire a different view than the one down on shore. Not to give her personal space but to pull up a chair and study the landscape.

    Freedom of expression living in Maine when a nudist or sun worshiper is tackling an all over even tan.

    Maine Beaches Photo
    Sample ME. Pick A Place Breathe Deep The Salty Air. Drink In The Sounds Of The Maine Sea. Get Ready To Plant Your Beach Chair Along The Miles Of Maine Coastline.

    It was a mutual arrangement and the woman caught some rays, the boys inside a few thrills with the adult entertainment.

    In freedom of dress practiced in Maine. There are warmer places to be one, a nudist but if you are hearty, come ski, snow sled, play pond hockey unprotected and in the buff. We dare you. Take your clothes off and feel a tingle… until all sensation stops when frost on body parts makes you high tail it indoors looking for warm clothes, a hot shower. Maine is comfortable temperatures but wearing summer clothing to keep it G rated and not exposed like nudists seek for no constraints, no restrictions. With the only wrinkles showing all natural and not in un-ironed messed up body covering threads.

    The spring/ late winter skiing at the local hills and mountains do spy with the little eye the bikini top swish swisher on occasion but most of us find being warm trumps being exposed or even stylish.

    Although have to admit sliding into a hot top wearing trunks in an outdoor deck inset at Sugarloaf USA with my family after a fun day of downhill wearing a pair of boards. Surrounded with arms around the tub’s edges, watching other skiers on the lift headed back up for more. My arms and upper body steaming with arctic smoke.

    nudist skinny dipping in maine
    Nudists, Skinny Dipping In Maine. Black Flies, Frosty Weather And Neighbors With Pellet Guns Tends To Thin Them Out.

    In a midst of the mist of steam from the water and air temperature contrast extremes.

    Nudist next door to a Maine real estate listing is not good for business. We try to avoid being outdoors without clothes in the dead of winter in Maine. But I have had sauna users from Finland, Norway for real estate customers who for for health reasons,old World  traditions like to roll in the snow. Like sugaring a fresh donut that just hopped out of the grease to cool on the rack. But otherwise we all take steps, precautions. The naked truth? We like to avoid frost bite in Maine. Being a nudist thrill seekers is not high up on the list of my bucket list living in the great state of Maine.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

    207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

    MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton Maine 04730 USA

     

  • Unplugged, Raw And Real | Maine Blog Posts On Simple Living.

    Ever get tired of the spin, the manipulation and insincerity of the intense marketing that swirls around us? Pull the plug, get to Maine.

    It is not land before time or dinosaurs roaming the landscape in Maine. But money to fuel all that hype, the propaganda a growing level of distrust. When it is missing, other miracles happen.

    maine small towns
    Nothing New, Small Maine Town Pride, The Fun Home Grown & Kept Simple. Nothing Has Changed.

    In small rural living Maine towns, the rip open up the wallet every time you turn around  is replaced with unfold the community spirit in the a local resident’s heart.

    There is nothing stronger than the heart of a passionate native who year after year steps up and takes on the challenge.

    To do their part and contribute selflessly because there is never too much competition for that unique part in the day to day play.

    Once they determine their skill set, step up and do their part. To add to the local Maine flavor in Vacationland.

    The fun is outdoors in Maine. In an urban setting there is none of that space. Excitement is all around us in 91% wooded Maine dotted with clean fresh lakes, a rugged coastline of water facing east. Fast and slow moving water. Some pretty interesting terrains to hike, bike, ski or hoof.

    Maine. The Jewels Are Out In The Open, Glistening, Sparkling The Daylight. Not Trapped, Under A Light In A Locked Up Tight Display Case.
    Maine. The Jewels Are Out In The Open, Glistening, Sparkling The Daylight. Not Trapped, Under A Light In A Locked Up Tight Display Case.

    Marketing, convincing you and I to buy this, invest in that with three easy payments, one last not so sweet larger one. Living in debt is not what true Mainer’s do.We can live without whatever is on the shopping carousel round and round she goes. We can say no thanks, not for me. But many new to Maine out to change it would say you can not, should not.

    That is why an individual invested in the local turf can get their shackles up.

    Cause them to raise an eyebrow when someone not from Maine suddenly decides what is needed to improve it.

    If you come from an area flush with cash and used to lots of it needed to survive. Burdened by extra levels of spending in the day to day, it can feel like more of that should follow you over the big green bridge on the south end of Maine.

    Leave it on the other side of the river. At your old address outside Maine.

    As you enter Vacationland and leave the rest of the hustle bustle in the rear view mirror motoring hard to get away from the smells, noise, crime and expensive living in jammed in concrete jungles.

    The quiet can be at first deafening in Maine. But then the subtle sounds of crickets, or the hard to miss cry of a blue jay or Maine lake loon can take it from here.

    maine old car gas station photo
    Check The Oil, Your Air, Stick In The Gas Hose. Maine Has Not Lost What Is Important.

    The wind vibrating through the pine needles of a large left alone wooden giant. The sound of running water. Or tapping in drops on a tin roof of a Maine wood’s hand hewn beam cabin or sitting relaxing in old farm house porch rocker or swing.

    Life still requires hard work being resourceful, developing skills to stretch the dollar in Maine.

    But the anxiety to fuel the unhealthy slows down in the less important areas. To make room for the ones that were shoved aside and forgotten. Or never development, no one sampled the no thank you helping. To try it, you might like it.

    Why so different in the urban vs rural? Often not an option when all the space, no time robs a healthy habit to enjoy life in natural no money required ways. The just got got no no time as Burton Cummings Of The Guess Who sang lamented.

    No time, and all that bombardment of how you should spend it and your pay check best can make a person feel there is no other option. Even that places like Maine only exist in movies, history.

    maine victorian homes
    Style, Comfort, Home Sweet Home Made To Last Design. Life The Way It Should Be Protected In Small Maine Towns.

    Small town special is challenged with the economy and down sizing to centralize services in Maine but you do have to go through a little Hell to get to Heaven right?

    Hunger improves the taste.

    Self medication over indulging in something that’s missing for a temporary fix is expensive. And all that replaced when you move in the direction of under populated Maine. For inner joy, plenty of space and all these natural resources.

    Give it a chance, keep an open mind and watch what happens to your heart strings.

    As one by one they get wrapped around her fingers. And you don’t mind one little bit. As Maine’s simple living seduces, relaxes,fulfills you completely. So that unplugged, real and raw eye opening living replaces rat racing like Chicken Lickin’ or Henny Penny.

    Settle in and get lost. In a place that ends the inability to hear yourself think about the important areas of your life. Get to Maine whenever you can and sample her pure, natural unspoiled beauty!

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

    207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com

    MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton Maine 04730

     

  • Ramps For Wheelchairs, Walkers | Maine Home Heating Oil Assistance.

    If you are elderly, on a fixed income and mobility is not so easy.

    If your circulation makes it harder to stay warm, you need some assistance. Big time.

    Maine Small Town Living Means No Cost Pleasures.
    Maine Pleasures Are Many, Small, Real & Natural. The Best Kind Are Free.

    Finding help with creating handicap friendly surroundings.  Financial assistance with wheelchair / walker ramps is what the aging segment of the Maine population needs. Along with heating assistance, help with insulation to tighten up the home sweet home.

    So where do you turn?

    To save time, you have come to the right blog post link for wheelchair ramp assistance in Maine.

    And what are the specs for a ADA wheelchair ramp? Building minded and needing more advice for wheelchair ramps construction?

    Here is another wheelchair ramp option.

    On a walk today during a spring like day in Northern Maine I notice a couple aluminum ramp systems of handicap ramp.

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    Instead of the traditional wooden set up so wondered what is the cost and how aluminum ramps would be so much easily to dismantle.

    To transport and set up again using the lightweight ramps in a needed, new handicap location. Without missing much of a delay of service if the folks needing them are made aware of the ones out dotting the community.

    Ready quickly to be relocated and to find a new home for the same use by another Maine resident needing a little helping help to ease access when mobility is an issue.

    From $334 to nearly $1700 the cost I found for a range. Have seen these rust free sectioned wheel chair ramps at churches, residences and less maintenance one of the biggest assets besides ease in re-use.

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    And then there is shipping at this aluminum wheelchair ramp link.

    Please share with me other avenues for help with handicap wheelchair access ramp resources in Maine. Will be happy to add them and post on them as they roll in for all to use that really need help getting around.

    We have blogged about the Maine home heating oil assistance program before.

    Here is some help with  the Maine weatherization housing program.

    Help for the elderly, for those that need to have a little discretionary money left over to enjoy life.

    Or to save for peace of mind is a good thing for the Maine small town resident. No matter what age. Maine, simple, real, four season living and always most of the time spend outdoors.

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