Think one Maine beach is pretty much like another up here in Vacationland?
Life Is A Beach Right? A Maine Beach Like Goose Rocks, Fortune Rocks in Kennebunkport ME!
Like people, soils, Maine beaches are different.
No the same. It’s not just the color and quality of the beach sand. It’s more than the amount of Maine beach frontage. The take away experience of any Maine beach is the way it is developed.
Goose Rock Beach in Maine is three miles long.
Whoa. That’s is one long stretch of Maine coast beach sand. Spacing is what hits you first blush with Goose Rock Beach in Maine.
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The quaintness of the cottage and beach homes feels like a step back into time.
Vacationing up in Maine. Simplicity, well kept and quiet unlike wall to wall tourists when there are times where you feel you can not move. Or like you share the Maine beach with too many tourists and the resources are over taxed.
Going there as a young girl with her family for two week summer stints. We take yearly trips to Wells Beach continuing the tradition.
But the more time you spend in your “happy place” home away from home up in Maine, you branch out and explore. Really get to know a region of Maine and what is around it. Meg’s mom, sister Jessica went for a ride to seriously scope out nooks and crannies around Wells Beach Maine. All the kids and Meg had gone to Saco’s waterpark Fun Town Splash Town.
The Colors Of Maine Coastal Properties. Some Areas Just Gray, Tan, White And Weather Natural Shingle. Others Dare To Splash Brighter Paint Colors.
Goose Rock Beach was discovered and a return trip this past weekend felt like Wells Beach but transported back in time to the 1940’s, 1950’s period.
Prince Edward Island Canada can hit you with a similar feeling of nostalgia.
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So Goose Rock Beach, what did we learn about this beach section of Kennbunkport, Maine?
(Sound of Maine map crinkling, unfolding.) Kennebunk and Kennebunkport are not one place.
Cape Porpoise is a section of Kennebunkport, Maine.
Fortune Rock Beach is in Biddeford, Maine is to the north, Wells Beach is to the south. Got your bearings yet? And you and I have not moved into all the islands off this section of Maine coast.
The woods and water for solitude in Maine have their own reward. Parked lakeside in Maine hits the soul. Waling a sandy beach or rocky shoreline with sea air and breeze. Hiking to the top of a mountain trail hits you deeply as you gaze out from peak perch.
There is nothing to compare with the Maine coastal beach sand, and rolling Atlantic Ocean waves in the “lobstah” state.
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Part of it is more than the natural beauty setting. Add in the fresh seafood harvested fresh and local from deep blue and green water out front. And how hard the local property owners work to preserve and protect their piece of the Maine beach.
But underneath it all is like the trek to the Holy land. A deep spiritual emotion that wells up inside a person. Positioned near, on or in view the Maine ocean beach location for many is a mix of tradition, fond family memories.
The salt air, sea breeze, lobster boats, schooner sails and refreshing cold Maine coastal water provide life clarity.
Maine Coastal Beaches… Pick You Patch Of Sand. There’s Plenty.
Planning a vacation to Maine? Or live in Maine and looking for an instate getaway? Hope the travels around Maine posted on this Me In Maine blog post channel help provide suggestions you can use.
Maine lakes with motorboat horsepower restrictions.
Depending on your age and way you enjoy your waterfront in Maine, it’s important to know which lakes allow power boats. And the Maine lakes that limit the power attached to the back end of your boat. This blog post covers the A-Z of motorboat horsepower limits. Also the lakes in Maine that don’t allow power besides what you produce with a pair of paddles. Or harnessing the wind with a sail and tightening / loosening ropes.
For starters, in Maine there are do’s and don’t to protect the waterfront. In Maine lakes are protected by shoreland zoning regulations.
Any community can enact stricter Maine shoreland zoning rules and regulations too. So check for the latest on any new lake in Maine you want to fish, jet ski, slide your pontoon boat into on a hot summer day.
I listed and sold an Oakfield Maine lake cottage on Timoney Lake in Aroostook County where under ten horsepower is the rule then and today for motor size.
The owner included in the Maine waterfront property sale the cutest, smallest pontoon boat with a 9.9 horsepower motor for propulsion strapped to the back.
What’s Pushing Your Boat On A Maine Lake? Some Lakes Have Motor Boat Horsepower Limits. Or No Motors Allowed At All.
The questions comes up a lot on a Maine real estate call when a buyer wants to know is there a limit to the size of your boat motor.
Sometimes they have a pair of jet skis and want to pull tubes behind whatever brand they put in at the boat launch. Or no no, the cottage or lake lot buyers is not so cranked about jet skis or fast moving power boats. They want to paddle a kayak or have a small say 7.5 horsepower or smaller motor to push the craft around the Maine lake.
Dozing Off In The Maine Lakeside Hammock. Thinking You Have Next Year’s Firewood All In Place. Mainers are prepared, not taken by surprise.
The Maine lake survey list is here for depths, types of fish species, temperature, everything about each waterfront jewel.
Where is the list of Maine lakes with motorboat horsepower size limits or that ban anything beyond the paddle power?
No People, No Man Made Structure Or Noises. Welcome To Baxter State Park’s Mt Katahdin.
Maine lakes with horsepower restrictions, it all depends where you plan to float your boat.
Peace and quiet, no harm to the wildlife or shoreline happens when no motor is pushing you around a Maine lake or pond.
No motor boat lakes or ponds in Maine list.
Cushman Pond, Lovell,
Horseshoe Pond, Denmark
Boston Pond, Denmark
Bradley Pond, Lovell
Trout Pond, 13R5
Wylie Pond, Boothbay
Little Kennebago Lake, T3R4
Upper Dam Pool, T4R1 (from gates of dam, downstream or westerly 150 yards)
Durgin Pond, T2RG BKP WKR
Little Berry Pond, T2R6 BKP WKR
Lone Jack Pond, 12RS BKP WKR
Round Pond, T1 R6 BKP WKR
Fry Pan Pond, T2R5 BKP EKR
Blood Pond, T2R13 WELS
Loon Lake, Rangeley and Dallas Townships
Martin and/or Long Pond, The Forks Pit
Big Brook from Burt Garrity Road in T13 R1O WELS to and including Big Brook Lake in T14R1O WELS
Simpson Pond, Roque Bluff
Southern most part of Thompson Lake separated from the main body by a causeway known as The Heath, Casco
Little Pond, Damariscotta
Moxie Long Bog, Bald Mountain twp.
Clay Pond, Fryeburg
Watson Pond, Rome Twp.
Walton’s Mill Pond, West Farmington
Sand Pond, Limington Twp.
Saddleback Lake, Dallas Plt.
Hooper Pond (Little Sabattus), Greene
Adams Pond, Boothbay
Levenseller Pond, Searsrnont
Portage Lake, T13R6 WELS, that portion known as the Floating Island Area, north and westerly of a line beginning at the eastern edge of the marshy peninsula running out from Hutchinson Ridge, running 50 yards outside of the floating islands in a northerly direction to the mouth of Mosquito Brook
Quimby Pond, Rangeley
Jerry Pond, so called, situated within the boundaries, or having a shoreline abutting, the incorporated municipality of Millinocket and the unincorporated Townships being TlR7 and TAR7
Upper and Lower Ox Brook Lakes in the towns of T6ND, T6R1 and Talmadge
Snow’s Pond (as referred to in the Dunham-Daves Work Plan) situated west of Rt. 7, Dover-Foxcroft
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Maybe wind power and sailing is more your speed plying back and forth tacking on a Maine lake.
Depends on the day and the strength of the breeze on what type of sailing you will have on any lake in Maine. Check with the town or state regulator. Avoid a game warden giving you a warning or maybe a fine. Think of the loons nesting on that island over there. That the big waves created by round and round too close to shore can cause erosion. Mess up water fowl nesting areas, create sound pollution, etc. Plenty of Maine lakes for recreational boating but know before you go.
Erosion hurts the Maine lake, everything in swimming in it or around the precious body of water.
The lake camp and home owners on a Maine lake work hard to protect it.
Maine Shoreland Zoning Waterfront Regulations< Check With DEP Before You Buy Existing Or Building. !
Check with the local Maine lake association to learn more about each particular protected waterfront resource.
Some Maine lakes allow a certain horsepower for a period of months but not the entire season. Baxter State Park rules say no motorboats allowed except on Webster and Matagamon Lakes.
The next town over from where I live in Aroostook County Maine is Hodgdon. In the Lt. G. Manuel Wildlife Area in Hodgdon, Cary, Linneus Maine, no motorboats allowed at all. You can have a boat you hand paddle or slide in a kayak, a canoe powered the same way by hand. Why? Bald Eagles, other wildlife like the no motor interruption and others enjoying the natural resource area do too. These are not the place to jet ski and motorboat in Maine and are protected.
Peaceful, Quiet, Magical Mist Enjoying Fresh Coffee Early Morning On A Maine Lake.
Sometimes a retainer wall needs repair and less wave action from large boats that are not 200 feet or more from shoreline.
Respect whatever Maine lake you plan to enjoy any season of the year. Maine is the way life should be. But it does not just happen. Common sense is not enough. Study your lakes in Maine for the do’s and don’ts and respect it please. Be a good steward of the waterfront and protect it, pass it on in as good or better condition than you received it. That’s Maine, the way life should be.
Maine Maple Sunday, a yearly event in Vacationland.
Heading to the maple grove woodlots to tap trees, run lines for the golden syrup. Or the Maine home owner digs out the spouts, the snowshoes. Who taps the stately maple shade trees using buckets out front their house.
Sugar Shacks Open House In Smyrna Maine.
Lots of Mainers own woodlots to heat their homes and for recreation camp getaways.
Many Maine home owners have maple tree lined driveways. Dotting, shading along the street or road out front of their houses. Maine Maple Sunday is a big deal and it’s the 40th event this weekend. Always remember, it’s the last Sunday in March when sugar shacks and maple syrup producer distilleries open up their operations for old and young alike.
Inviting you in to witness up close and personal the 40 to 1 boiling down evaporating process. Before that the trip to the Maine woodlot to collect what runs in the lines or fills the galvanized buckets. You will also see the finished products made with pride of Maine produced pure maple syrup. Not some watered down from who knows where and all those artificial additives and colors.
Tap It In, Open Up The Faucet To Maine Maple Tree Sap. That’s The Easy Part.
Many Maine land owners have forest timber stands of maple hardwood trees that are idea for tapping the sap to make syrup.
The old fashion bucket collection system is slow and labor intensive but still fun to celebrate the approaching spring. Colder nights, warmer days and being outside collecting sap is a family tradition. I grew up doing it with my Dad who loved the woods. Creating home grown tap sap for your own Maine maple syrup! Ever done it? Would you like to?
It Costs More, But Maine Maple Syrup Is Pure And Natural. Not Loaded With Fructose, Additives, Preservatives.
Many trips to the Ludlow Maine woodlot to collect annual renewable firewood and the maple tree sap for syrup.
It’s all about just enjoying a Sunday afternoon picnic in your private woodlot loaded with wildlife. Just wildlife, nature to witness, no two legged critters to spoil the experience.
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Snow still on the ground, its is always the last one at the party to leave in wooded tracts of Maine land.
Hanging around in the Maine woodlots and when warmer day temperatures happen. Snow in Maine, always the last place to melt and disappear in woodlots. It’s why diehard snowmobiling continues longer on forest trails.
Maine Maple Sap Bucket Collects The Clear Watery Sap That Boils Down To Thick Amber Maple Syrup.
All those tall stately trees shading out the growing strong sun. That’s what extends winter snowscape a tad longer if you want a little more Maine snow sled trail riding time.
It’s more than the ritual of collecting maple tree sap to boil it down for the amber elixir that’s all natural.
Maple Sunday Weekend in Maine represents spring. One more sign that winter is waning, the long shadow of the low on the horizon sun is shifting its angle. Hope and faith that spring is ahead helps true Mainers dig out their garden and farm seed catalogs. It shows acceptance that winter is passing by and ready to fill the rear view mirror.
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Buds on the trees, early bulb flowers poking up through the ground around your Maine house foundation.
Snow banks receding, peppered with road sand and salt remains. Dusty, dirty. battle weary. Some lawns look like a bomb hit and a war was fought. Deep gouges with missing sod, thanks to the snow plow operator who did not lift the blade an inch or two when the ground is soft. Lots of gravel and road sand needing raking to remove. Spring run off from months of Maine snow increasing the smelting speed. The width of brooks, streams and rivers that grow exponentially this time of year.
Some places in rural Maine there is flooding that crosses back roadways for a few hours or a couple days.
Excitement about new flowers, the fragrant and colorful floral displays that happen on their own in Maine. It’s all ahead and exciting. Every Maine season offers it’s own special version of outdoor beauty. They work together. Like fall explosive colors are a second bloom of what happened over summer. There is overlap and tag team tug of war in the Maine season transition. It’s not snap your fingers quick and easy.
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Sap collection, it’s a form of farming. Just like harvesting fish off the coast of Maine is too. Not just rows of planted seeds or seedlings. More than just fence posts planted or straighten and lines run around Maine pasture fields for critter containment. And to keep the wildlife on the other side where they belong.
It’s picked up a resurgence since COVID turned on the bright harsh last call lights indicating you have to go. We don’t care where you go but you can’t stay here. It’s plenty sobering when home does not feel so home sweet home anymore.
Pack up to move to Maine.
Lots are doing it and I have read the state of Maine is number two for where folks pick for their new home base. Maine Maple Weekend Sunday is one more fun thing to do. To get out and observe when you are lucky enough to spend more than just a long weekend or seven day string of rest and relaxation in Vacationland.
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In Maine grocery stores, you have lots of choices for maple syrup.
You find your log cabin or lady with the head scarf brands of maple syrup to drizzle. Most from Vermont, some from Canada, more and more from Maine. But searching for the Maine made all natural maple syrup, the little jug of close to home grown oozing sweetness is not always there.
Or the $15 dollar sticker price can cause pause, temporary pain and suffering in the grocery aisles.
Until you remember how good, how natural and nothing artificial Maine maple syrup is. And you have a local farmer tending the Maine maple tree sap collecting operation. Support your Maine producer because no farmer, no food.
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See the list of all the open houses for Maine Maple Sunday weekend outlets and visit one or two near you that dot the link map.
Maple syrup is not just for lathering up pancakes and waffles with melting butter as a playmate. Lubricating stacks of jacks at breakfast time wakey wakey is not the only time to enjoy maple syrup.
Maple syrup is a sweetener for anything from candy to cake to pies, for dressings, a companion to scoops of ice cream.
Coffee for many just tastes better with a shot or two of Maine maple syrup. Discovered long before the turbo this, double shot of that mist topping of caramel swirl.
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Try a little maple syrup for the home brewed cup of Joe.
Instead of shelling out daily for the expensive red, blue, whatever exotic dye color addiction drive through fix. The reach for the gotta have the designer hot or cold coffee mainline or you will die right here and now. It’s an expensive daily ritual of hot and ready for many. You see the long long lines outside the drive thru of all the Maine coffee hound baristas locations.
The life or death sustenance of artificial life, fill it to the brim to win la-di dah latte.
The burn your hand even with a double sleeve, lava hot center of the sun blistering temperature money grab. The first thing on your mind when the eyelids go north.
The addiction that kept you awake half the night.
And Chummy, if you don’t get your special blend of foo foo coffee concoction with a triple pump of extra coconut oat almond milk shot please. Well now, life as you know it wired on caffeine is just not going to be as brightly colored orhalf the fun. Just sayin’.
Sorry for the rant. Don’t get me wrong. I love my basic black fresh brewed cup of coffee without all the Hollywood after affects. Missing the boat on all those extra expensive, time in line consuming ingredients to jazz up the coffee break experience.
Maybe I am missing something.
Just want a quick pit stop and not a coffee snob. Keep it simple. Make it black. Pitch black. Darker than the inside of a color black. (Pouring in a jigger of pure and natural Maine maple syrup) It’s always a good time for a cup of coffee and fellowship, communion in the great state of Maine outdoor landscape. Early morning parked next to a Maine lake is my happy place. Have another cup? Well, yes please if you’re up and pouring. Hit me with a little maple syrup, gotta give it a try.
Back on blog post topic for Maple syrup, the sugar shack open house weekend for local Maine producers.
Every maple syrup producer in Maine can claim to be the best and they are all right.
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These hard working Maine maple grove tree tapping sap collecting folks want to share an experience.
To show you how the process goes and all the many maple syrup by products out there to enjoy. Maple syrup, more than just a pancake or waffle meal pleasure experience.
Have you ever been to a Maine maple syrup open house Sunday? You know what all the ink spilling is all about then. If not, you should celebrate spring. Support your local Maine maple syrup producer.
You know the folks who called this, that place “home”. It’s not just a house painted a different color. Or one you walk by and remember when it was in better or worse condition. Small Maine houses are not found in 300 lot subdivisions with a sea of sameness. Or the need for GPS to find out which ones is your house after a long day at the office.
Home Town Proud Simple Living In Small Maine Communities.
Houses in small Maine towns have a connection.
The family that lives in each small town home is a big part of the community. The color, the changes over the years don’t go unnoticed. Son in that one was on your little league team. The same age as your oldest. His sister was in one class ahead of your youngest daughter. When the family grows up and moves away, the sound of laughter fades with the memories.
Trees around the not so highly maintained Maine homes take over quickly.
They grow in around the structure to make it disappear.
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The father two home owner’s ago was a US border patrol agent.
His wife a nurse at the local hospital. She held brownie meetings for the girl scouts troop in the overhead garage attic rec room. Low population small Maine town houses are important “containers”.
When an older house is torn down in a small Maine town it hits me as a sad event to witness.
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Partly because housing units are in tight supply. We need all we can get for starter homes, to convert into apartments. The one after another home sewn together like boot laces up and down the tree lined street.
These houses, yards, the maintenance all represent part of the history of the small Maine town in small Maine communities.
The excavator with the claw or fire or whatever lead to the need to demolish the structure means part of the original neighborhood character disappeared. Gone but not forgotten if you remember the original house and the folks who grew up there.
Small Maine Towns. Walk To Everything,Not Uber Of Lyft Or Drive To Places.
As you walk a summer night around the neighborhoods of a small Maine town. You one by one recall what was in that “hole” or “gap”. Before many of these newer homes popped up one by one, these three blocks were a farm or heavily wooded.
The neighbors bordering each side of the house may split the newly created vacant lot.
When the place comes down and no more shared driveway hassles. Gone is the squabbles over the three pit bulls barking loudly long after the bedroom night stand light goes dark. No new home built to replace it and more yard space,plenty of parking, less shade happens. Or if the lot is lucky enough to have a replacement home added, it is not often the same character or style of the original.
Housing needs change and one floor gets the majority of votes for housing styles these days. Remove the stairs to broaden the house’s appeal to Maine home buyers.
A double wide or modular is not the same construction as the older, larger square footage Maine Victorian houses.
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Not double boarded, no back stairway, no attic, no sleeping porch or formal dining room, patterned hardwood floors or turret. Smaller lot, less square footage efficient. Easier to heat and loaded with new technology and no root cellars, no stained glass, no ball room size space.
Instead of a strip mall location or high exposure US highway spot for a business, many of the older Maine houses a blend of business and residential use.
Dr. Perkins the veterinarian lived on Court Street and I remember taking our farm tom cat Satie for medical attention. Many older houses in Maine near a court house become an apartment overhead for a traveling nurse. A law office with the scales of justice displayed on the ground floor.
Same thing happens with houses around a Maine hospital.
They become auxiliary facilities housing something medical related. Like a daycare near the elementary school, the location saves the busy World some precious time.
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On Bowdoin Street, the mint green New England style home on the right had a beauty salon in the cellar.
So did the brown cape next to it where both hair dressers built successful home hair care businesses. Other homes have cottage industries underway. The seamstress who can alter your clothing, put in a new hem or loosen up the tight fit.
The lady two doors down from your home caters parties, weddings, holiday get togethers. Across from her is a fellow who used his carriage house for repairing small engines. Everything from lawnmowers to snowmobiles and chainsaws.
Lots Of Buildings With A Maine Farmstead. Plenty Of Space, Inside And Out!
Working from home happened in Maine homes long before telecommute remote online jobs sprung up all over the state of Maine.
In small Maine towns, before the 1980’s, there were lots of corner groceries. More smaller neighborhood groceries and less big box outlets for everything. Homes added on and converted in several phases as their attached small grocery stores increased business. And tight parking lead to the removal of a house or two around it when the opportunity arose. Or a relocation to a commercial spot with more traffic, better in and out parking options.
That neighborhood of cape style homes created after WWII.
This one from the 1960’s with a ranch after 24’x40′ style ranch. Bought with a dollar down. A subsidized help you along from Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) attached 33 year mortgage lower rate. Only 396 payments if we don’t double up on the payments or replace it with a home sale for a new set of house keys. Everything is less expensive from houses to the cost for a plumber, electrician, carpenter.
Small town Mainers are pretty jack of all trades, highly skilled in lots of areas. Anything but helpless and always friendly, helpful, handy.
Small Town Houlton Maine, Walk To Everything Easy!
Protecting the character of the small Maine town housing stock.
Feeling pride when you see up and down a street the neighborhood being revitalized. You don’t want it to be “last guy out of town, turn off the lights” final. In parts of the country, you can’t just tear down an older heritage home. Have to gut and replace to renew it so available housing stock stays healthy.
Talked to a guy from Cape Cod last week who told me about his job jacking up and replacing foundations, moving homes in the Bay State.
Lots Of Homes Are Vacation Ones, Hidden And Tucked Away On Lakes All Over Maine.
Some homes have lots of children, lots of extended family coming and going around them.
Lights are on and folks are home. The open front porch and rear yard in constant use. Other houses in small town Maine owned by snow birds. That take off before the first snow flake and return when green grass appears.
A few neighborhood homes used as the hub of activity for the kids who live blocks around it. Others dark, not much activity because the owner does not get out much and drives a walker. Those are the ones the neighbors join forced to watch out and check in to make sure all is well.
Built From Another Time, When Your Home Was Your Castle. You Did Not Run The Roads.
The stately small downtown in a Maine community changes too.
The old blacksmith shop is now a parking lot. One downtown former grocery store converted into multi housing apartments. Another transformed into a community college a beehive of higher education.
A mill closing or just Internet and Interstate threatening the small town Maine way of life.
We have economic struggles to weather but those tight times only make the connection stronger, tighter. The larger, older housing stock Maine is famous for is ideal for taking in loved ones. Your relatives that need independence but someone keeping a closer watch as age happens to the best of us. Taking in foster kids, opening up a bed and breakfast, the small Maine town houses are hard working like the folks who own them.
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Year after year with your kids, tramping up the house steps to trick or treat.
Knock and wait for it. You remember who gave the best candy snacks and who decorated to the hilt at Christmas, the other holidays. Some houses looking abandoned because they are. Foreclosure can take years to figure out who made the loan, who insured it as a back up go to when the mortgage and property tax payments stop.
Those homes not stopped at during a magazine sales campaign school fund raisers. Or biking by on your early morning paper route job to earn some spending money.
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The houses in small Maine towns, who lives in them is no secret to the locals who log year after year of living in the community.
Like pets needing a new home or that are just sadly neglected. You want to see them get energized, put back on their feet. The grand older Maine houses are the anchors of the community. With new neighborhoods popping up and the landscaping changing slow by sure. Thank yu for following our Me In Maine blog posts.
When you spend time in Maine on vacation, you pick up on how the local population natives interact. You sense how connected a small Maine community is and witness first hand “home town ” pride in everything on the local level.
What Is It Like In Maine? Home Town Proud Simple Living In Small Maine Communities.
Mainers are helpful.
Lazy is not in the vocabulary and frowned on as not pulling your own weight. Maine families are raised to help out daily anyway they can. On the road, Maine motorists roll to a stop. Crank down the window and stop if your car is parked on a roadway to make sure you are okay. “Need me to jump start that dead battery for you or make a cell phone call?””Stuck in a snow bank and need a little tug to nudge you back on the highway?” “Run out of gas, need a lift, is everyone okay?” Or “lost, need directions?” It’s all about helpful, how can I help you living in small town Maine.
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Maine local populations maybe small but provide large helpings of caring for others every day, any season.
You don’t have to know or be related to the person receiving the helpful attention either. I hear it all the time in my job as a Maine real estate broker that the local community members are so helpful and friendly. Yes they are but the question I ask “isn’t it like this where you live now?” More often than not, the response is no, no it is not.
Wide Open Space. More Farms, Wooded Land And Fewer People. That Is What It Is Like In Maine.
Less population is part of it. In crowded urban areas you keep to yourself, eyes forward, get from point A to B as quickly as possible without bother anyone. You hire everything done. In small Maine towns, people are concerned and worry about each other. Mainers are jack of all trades and pretty darn handy, helpful.
Your friends and neighbors get involved to give you a hand on projects in small town Maine.
Mainers know how to change their own oil, shingle a garage roof, replace the guts of a toilet to stop the waste of water. They mow their lawn and shovel their walkways, don’t hire it out. Independent, loaded with skills and a can do attitude. A group assembles quickly to help you get your winter wood cut, split, stored inside the shed or tucked away down in your Maine home cellar. Many hands do make light work in small town Maine.
Meet Neighbors, New Friends, See Family Members. Local Public Suppers That Kind Of Experience.
It’s also nice to know others care about you and check in if you were not at coffee at the local Maine diner this morning.
Or notice that they did not see you at the high school basketball game last night or at breakfast this morning at the local snowmobile club. We look for each other and come to the rescue when the burden gets too tough to carry in life. You give back because you have personally received over and over. You play it forward, you pay it back. That is what it is like in Maine.
Awareness of others in your area and a sense of volunteerism instilled in everyone raised in small town Maine.
Everyone pitches in and tries to help out to do what they can for the greater good. What is it like living in Maine? Simple, real, down to Earth.
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Common sense still used here and less games, more dedication to work hard through your troubles. Not blaming someone else or whining about how hard you have it. No time for feeling sorry for yourself. Pick yourself up by the bootstraps and taught early on to expect less from others and more from yourself really works. If it is to be, it is up to me.
Maine humor, not just the Downeast kind that can be dry and witty.
The “you can’t there from here” retort when asking directions and lost in Maine is well known. But the local expressions describing events unfolding around you. The woodlot for sale was cut so hard “a woodpecker would have to pack a lunch to make it across the acreage”. Colorful ways to converse in Maine keep it light and bright and cause a chuckle or smile.
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If the weather forecasts provides ten inches of new fresh white powdery snow, the native Mainer refers to it as “just a dusting”.
All of us living in Maine have a common task. To have a positive attitude and not be a wet blanket Debbie Downer. To try hard to see the humor in anything happening around you in life. It could always be worse. You and I are pretty lucky overall thinking. Hope, faith, keep at it and don’t give up or get discouraged.
Making less money but better use of managing it in Maine.
What Time Is It? Time To Get Outdoors On The Maine Lake!
Working hard and nothing for free and easy creates a deeper appreciation of gratitude in Maine. You respect other people’s property more. Feel lucky to be on a lake enjoying a sunrise with a fresh brewed hot coffee. Sitting out front on the deck of the humble but your built from scratch waterfront camp. What is it like in Maine?
These Me In Maine blog posts try to convey the lay of the land and what to expect for comparison to where you have been, where you are now. The community videos for Maine do too.
Little things like home cooked meals “uptah camp in Maine” make life enjoyable and not just nose to the grindstone drudgery.
Being outside everyday of the year in Maine provides the fresh air and enjoyment knowing you and I are some kind of lucky to live in Maine.
Collect Maine Lighthouse Experiences. Over 60 To Visit, Re-Visit. One Fun Thing To Do In Maine.
Less people, more natural unspoiled beauty and no traffic, little crime. Friendly, helpful, humorous, hand people.
What do you like best about Maine? In your short vacation visits or gleaned from living here for generations and everything in between. What has been your experience? And remember, don’t believe all you read and know that the best things about small town living in Maine are not so well documented online.
Please do a search on our Maine blog for topics that interest you or subjects you always wondered about to satisfy the curiosity.
Whitewater River Rafting In Maine, One Suggestion Answer For What’s It Like Living In Maine.
You have to experience Maine first hand and draw your own conclusions. Don’t let others do your thinking for you. Maine, come for a day, end up staying a lifetime. Maine is the way life should be.
He and his wife think parked next to a Maine lake and watching the seasons change is direction he wants for quality of life. And in the course of sharing information on where he would like to build a waterfront retirement home on a small Maine lake property acreage, we started childhood flashback experiences.
He had roots in Calais, Downeast Maine and his family rounded up the kids and relocated north.
Downeast Coastal Lobster Boats In Maine.
His Dad worked on the border at a custom’s brokerage house business.
His friends called him Ace. I remember his mom working at Day’s Jewelry Store where I bought black and white Poloroid film in expensive packages of only eight exposures each. Small town living in Maine is like that. You don’t just know the person but everything, anything about his or her family connections. In small Maine towns, you bump into each other often several times a day.
Attending St Mary’s catholic school in Houlton ME until high school and said he was a cold lunch bagger.
Some in his Water Street school enjoyed hot lunch. Delivered via bus, created each day at Lambert School, the old high school brick building next to Central.
One day snowballs pummeled at a school lunch bus seemed entertaining for he and a group of his friends.
All fun and games until a sister wearing a habit learned about the activity. Hauling in the crew, using a thick wooden paddle with individual helpings of discipline. Designed to make sure the activity did not occur again.
Early Maine Potato Farm Machinery At Local Littleton ME Museum
Hands extended to receive the one by one down the line punishment.
Remember the spare the rod, spoil the child adage. The punishment dished out down the line leaving no snow ball throwing hand left out from the cure. My friend’s mother reminded him at home he and his crew got just what they deserved. Kids had a lot more responsibilities at school, at home and working to earn their keep.
We moved on to Maine fall harvest picking potato experiences, making your own spending money.
Kenny’s first day was almost his last picking potatoes.
The field boss on the Maine farm had assigned him an end section in the potato field. All by himself at the end of the row.
If you have never picked barrels of newly dug potatoes laid out in two rows by a mechanical digger pulled by a Maine farm tractor, you wonder what’s the big whoop?
Early Maine Farm Life At The Homestead, Surrounded With All The Wooded And Pasture Field Land To Scratch Out A Living.
An end section extends and contracts with the surrounding tree line defining the Maine land potato field shape.
Not only do you get behind as your potato picking field section grows larger. But you get discouraged with fewer potatoes and wrestling to find them under large dirt clods where they are hidden.
It truly is one potato, two potato pick ’em up and put them in the woven basket and your barrel production suffers greatly with an end row section.
It takes four big heaping baskets made of brown ash and dumped in a plywood or cedar stave wooded potato barrel for the 25, 60 cents or whatever unit payment. Mark that barrel with your ticket number for the daily count back in the farmer’s house kitchen tally.
Agriculture, Farm Food Grown Close To Home, Locally Sourced Is The Best Tasting.
If your end section shrinks row by row of unearthed potatoes to pick, low barrel count for you that day in the hot harvest fall sun or rain, maybe spitting snow.
Kenny had enough and slipped away, hiding in the woods to avoid detection on this way walking home.
Potato picking was not for me he surmised. The was a potato field MIA loose, sound the air raid alarm. His Dad got wind of the news, found him, put him in a car, delivering him back to the field with a stern warning. Don’t do it again.
Small Town Public Suppers! Great Meal, Friendly Servers, Good Causes. Win, Win, Win!
The beauty of potato picking besides making your own money to manage as a kid, no one leaves the field until everyone is picked up is a valuable lesson.
We are all in this together to clean up before we can go home. The money you make in the potato field used to buy your fall school clothes. Kids helped shoulder some of the household expenses and learned to shop wisely, develop spending impulse control. To take care of whatever they “earned” with their own money a potato barrel at a time.
Meet Neighbors, New Friends, See Family Members. Local Public Suppers That Kind Of Experience.
No one is abandoned and left behind alone in the Maine potato field.
No rows and rows behind discouragement howling at the moon for anyone on the potato picking crew.
Pick ’em clean. Helping the local Maine potato farmer get the crop out experience was part of growing up in Aroostook County.
Hard Work With The Right Tools Is The Most Productive, Rewarding In Small Town Living In Maine.
I think small town living in Maine makes your connection with others in it much stronger for lots of reasons.
One, knowing a person in your class or neighborhood growing up provides a wealth of experiences. We are more connected, have spent more time together through out life so we know each other better.
Second, working on local community events whether coaching a youth hockey team or raising money for a Rotary project just helps strengthen the connection. When you have personal experiences with someone, you understand them better. They accept you too. Each know where the other is coming from, their strengths and weaknesses and why or how they react to anything.
The many Maine small town experiences through out life help the community.
Oh sure, there can be differences and personality clashes. But first hand personal knowledge of all the skills and talents in a small Maine town can be a beautiful thing. Like a team that pulls together and knows what has to happen for success before the buzzer sounds.
Makes for a better working relationship, the quality of life too because nothing is surface or unknown about the others in your small Maine town.
The small town community members understand each other deeply because there are not strangers. Accepting, needing, proud of where we live. Knowing we all have an important role in creating and sustaining the small Maine town living experience.
Simple Survival And Quality Of Living In A Small Maine Town.
My advice for folks relocating to Maine, is get involved.
From day one and never let off the throttle. Be productive rather than petty. No time for personality attacks and everything about pitching in and combining talents.
And for locals to realize all these new fresh ideas from folks who did live somewhere else can be weaved into what we could do to help the small Maine town prosper.
Realize there are community members who have full, rich experiences and will adopt you as one of their own. But not so much if you bitch and complain and find fault constantly. Easy does it as we all get to know each other and divvy up who does what and when.
Outdoors, Do It Yourself More Independent! That’s Living In Small Towns In Maine!
Brand new to the area transplants need to know the lay of the land and for locals to show them the ropes. To explain traditions and the history lessons they missed.
Volunteering is what small Maine town living is all about.. has to be.
No money to hire it done and what would be the fun in that?
Sure there is room for improvement and change is inevitable in a small Maine town. But easy does it on the “back home we always did it this way, that way”. It can get tedious and make locals wonder then why did you leave?
Hard Honest Work, No One Lazy! Expecting Setbacks In Rural Maine.
Something in the where you lived before location exchange before the move to Maine must have made it worth it.
But sharing and comparing what works and why or why not is important in brainstorming. Remind yourself of those reasons you moved to Maine. All this four season drop dead gorgeous beauty.
Maine is smaller sparse spread out populations, vast unspoiled terrain.
Working Outdoors In The Fields. Amish Farmers Produce Quality Local Food.
You daily travel much smaller local circles really getting to know others living in the village size population. Maine is over 450 small towns, plantations and only a handful of cities.
