Category: Living in Maine

Thanksgiving, The 65th Local Rotary Auction In Houlton Maine.

Fall in Maine means local Rotary auction fund raising time in my home town.

The local Houlton Rotary Club celebrates its 100th birthday this year. And leading up to Thanksgiving week, the local club members work hard behind the scenes. Preparing for the biggest fundraiser of the year, the fall rotary auction. It started out as radio only for the audience connection. Just tune in, bid high, stick around for all three nights of the Houlton Rotary radio auction.

Local Houlton Maine Rotary Auction Hi Low Bidding, Watson Hall On Main ST.

The first radio auction for Rotary started in 1956.

In time with technology advances, the auction became radio, television and Internet broadcasts options to play the game. There is even a Facebook auction off shoot of the Rotary auction to increase the reach and help the bottom line of fund raising for local projects.

Area businesses donate goods and services to list in the local supplement of auction items to bid on with something for everyone in the small community broadcast listening area.

Those items to use as the bait to bring in bids are a big part of the fund raising numbers. But lots of home made smaller items from folks out in the bidding audience are the cream to raise money.

People scan the supplement list of items hard and mark items to watch and bid on during the three day event. Happy meals from Mickey Dee’s for the kids in the early hours of bidding.

Toys and sport game, movie passes. Bigger three night special items that cost a little more for the older bidders who wear larger wallets. Many hunt down the home made hand knit real wool mittens. Some bid on the Ward log cabin kit and dream of where to put it on a Maine land listing.

Looking for Gladys Dow’s annual chocolate log. Joe Beasley’s cajun Louisiana style spiced jar of sauce. Bob Blanchette’s and Kaye McGinnis’s fudge listings in the local newspaper bid list of offerings advertising supplement.

Or bidding on a local grocery store gift certificate, a case of motor oil, home heating oil, a cord of wood. Something for everyone to bid on. Gift certificates, savings bonds from area banks, books, puzzles, games. Home made cribbage boards go high too.

Home made mittens, cords of firewood, pontoon boat rides around a local lake, an ultralight ride up and over your small Maine town and the countryside.

Checking Out The Merchandise On The Rotary Auction, Houlton ME.

Everyone contributes to the auction items to raise over $50,000 to pour into local Houlton Maine community projects. Ads from the advertising supplement, oil raffle tickets, and donations to on air causes like the local library, hospital, school.

These revenue streams all part of the gross income and after the expenses create the year’s net profit to divvy up among well deserving projects. Capital expenditures and not a million smaller operating budget contributions the focus.

To do something like an outdoor amphitheater project for the community band, Veteran’s day ceremonies, lots of other uses.

The track building of an engineered hill and garage on top for soap box derby racing. A school performing arts center or much needed medical equipment at a local hospital. All part of the fund raising proceeds placement in the local area.

Some local projects highlighted in the auction advertising supplement are this year’s one time recipients of funding. Other side hustles on air for added awareness and promotion to a list of on going worthwhile projects get attention too.

“Buy a boot, give a hoot”.

The local slogan for small pewter statutes cast 500 at a time to support local health care as our hospital. Bought in honor of a past away family member or a thousand dollars pledged to buy one to park on a fireplace mantel or on a shelve in your home. The money raised supports quality local health care that you or a family member may need.

Small Maine towns are more connected.

“Rotary Auction, What Item You Looking At, To Bid On Tonight?” The 70 Member Local Rotary Club Hard At Work Raising Money For Local Projects.

The circles we travel are smaller, tighter.

Working on the local service clubs events together helps you know your neighbor. It’s all highly important to the quality of life in these rural areas of Maine. If it was not the local individuals banding together to fund raise and brainstorming to identify the need, it would not get done. The moneys from local government are not there to pick up the bill. Hiring it done is not an option. Plus it would miss the home grown satisfaction that rolling up your sleeves and pitching in causes when the entire village participates.

The Rotary Auction is the week of Thanksgiving.

Past Members Of Rotary Who Helped Out On Many Auctions. Some Members Gone But Not Forgotten.

As college kids return to their home town with several bags of laundry for the traditional holiday break. The auction is an important social stop to catch up with classmates.

The school chums make sure to stop into to the live broadcast auction operation at Watson Hall on Main Street. The local broadcast lets everyone know who is home from college or back to visit from out of town. It’s like old home week and these college kids remember bidding on items growing up in the small town. Many that are local end up working the auction stations and filling the positions of the bid collecting to replace those volunteers that are lost to old age or relocation. We do both in person and ZOOM Rotary club meetings to play it safe and protect the community we love and cherish. This year’s 65th Rotary Radio Auction is November 21, 22. 23, 2020.

Who Won And What Item? Tabulating The Last Session Of The Three Nights Of Bidding On The Houlton ME Rotary Auction.

There was a time when the auction was at our local high school so we could broadcast it on local cable not yet wired into Watson Hall.

A lot of work to haul items to showcase on air the three blocks away from Main to Byrd Streets in Houlton Maine. And the haul the auction equipment and all that merchandise back after three nights of bid early, bid high, bid often.

Bids Called In, Coming Down The Conveyor Belt For Placement On The Tote Board. Neat System Changed This Year Due To COVID19 Response.

Christmas shopping done during the Rotary auction too. Everyone gets excited and in some form or another is part of what makes each year bigger and better than the last auction.

Because we are in Potato Country, in Aroostook County, the garden of Maine, spuds are a big part of the local Rotary auction.

Usually up top in each advertising segment, you will see four or five fifty pound bags of Burbank Russets, Yukon Gold, Superiors, Kennebec or Katahdins potato varieties. The spuds grown locally and donated by area Northern Maine potato farmers. There is a lot of eating in a fifty pound paper bag of Aroostook County potatoes. So many ways to serve them up and prepare the meal for tonight’s supper time ritual. I grew up on a Maine potato and grain club and did not eat a lot of rice as a kid. “Farm to table” was a habit before the catchy agri-tourism term was coined and spun into an “Eat Local” buzz phrase.

Woods, Potatoes, All In The Shadow Of Mt Katahin! Northern Maine Tourism Is Big. Welcome To A Sportman’s Paradise!

This year with social distancing, the inner workings of the 65th annual Houlton Rotary Auction will be different for safety sake.

Crowding around the TV, lap or desk top screen or radio broadcast will still happen out in the audience at home. But the rotary club members will have less handling of bids using the old pegger and sorters method of processing incoming auction bids. Instead, using banks of lap tops to input the bids. The ones received on the phone lines called in to hopefully win an item in this year’s auction bidding.

Here are a couple videos from past Rotary Auctions from our 70 member service club.

Thank you all local Houlton Maine Rotarians for your “service above self” the last 100 years. What does your local Rotary club do and are you a member?

This year’s 65th auction is dedicated to Michael A Clark who passed away this weekend.

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

The auction this year is dedicated to Michael A. Clark. Mike was a life long cheerleader, ambassador to the town of Houlton Maine, the county seat for Aroostook County. He will be missed an

condolences to his family, his wife Debbie who is our club secretary.

Mike was a past district governor for Rotary International and truly displayed “Service Above Self”.

Playing the drums during summer evening concerts every Thursday night. Tinkling the piano keys too at local rotary events for the background atmosphere. His trailer for band member chairs for the outdoor concerts in Monument Park proudly stated “Houlton, Music Town Of Maine” with lists of Suzuki Strings, Show Choirs, Community Bands. He was right. This is one musical place.

Local ATV and snowmobile clubs work hard too raising money for building, maintaining trails.

Having local breakfasts and dinners to raise money to keep the trails smooth and groomed. This tourism rich local volunteer effort brings in money from out of towners using the trails to explore and discover Northern Maine.

Volunteering, working together for a common cause in Maine small town living.

RIP Michael Clark, Dedicated Local Rotarian, Past District Governor, Paul Harris Fellow.

Pitching in for the greater good. Kids grow up watching their parents, teachers, their neighbors all pitching in to do amazing things as a village. It all enhances our local quality of life in small town Maine. So many in local fish and game, Elks, Kiwanis, local school sports, music, drama, etc clubs raise the funds to make local programs possible that benefit the entire population. And all ages, many talented local folks step up to get involved for the common good.

Fall harvest is wrapping up, the Rotary Auction is heating up time around Southern Aroostook County.

Like all the four seasons, each is a busy time for small towns in Maine where the locals are active volunteering to collectively improve their communities. The local events like the Houlton Rotary Club Auction Thanksgiving week are all part of the traditions. The ones passed down where everyone in the local small towns have a hand. All are part of the pretty impressive volunteer work force. You get to know the folks around you better working on common causes too like the Rotary Auction held during Thanksgiving week for the last 65 years.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

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

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October 20, 2020
Fall Foliage Colors In Maine

Fall foliage colors in Maine.

The explosion of leave color brilliant orange, red, yellow, brown and a zillion hues of green when the fall season rolls across Maine. Some years the leaf peak of mixed fall colors get robbed by high winds and the second bloom explosion never happens. Other fall seasons the crazy colors get to the peak detonate to achieve the pinnacle because winds do NOT huff and puff. Mother Nature controls the timing. Not you or I right?

Peak Fall Foliage Colors In Maine. The Maine.gov Site Says My Region’s Peak Is This Weekend!

In Maine, as one by one leaves slowly fall to the ground outside your front porch or tucked away inside a woods cabin.

Next year’s wood supply for the kitchen cook stove is processed in fall. The Fisher yellow plow is hooked back on the unregistered tired four wheel drive used for snow removal after a Maine snow storm. Canning and preserving happen in fall. Cider making all these apples in Maine is cranked out for healthy all natural drinks. We think of harvest, working for area farmers or getting the crop in on our own spreads. Whether large house gardens or rolling farm pasture fields, fall harvest and being outdoors energizes the soul. Getting prepared for the change of seasons as the days tick off living in Maine.

This year in Northern Maine, some hurricane weather map from the south did tail wind up in the belly of Vacationland.

Stripping some of the leaves before they could hit the high notes of fall colors. Prematurely pulled off the trees, these leaves of all colors line the dry countryside of Maine. The stream, brook and

Long Views, The Kind In Maine Where Conversation Stops, Jaws Drop.

river beds that lack water are now carpeted with fall leaves. Healing the scars and covering up the lack of water ravages due to the Maine drought of rain. Local Maine farmers are harvesting small yields. Worried about keeping what they do pull up and out of the ground safely packed away in storage bins. To draw from over the months ahead to pack, stack and head on down the pike to southern produce markets.

Growing food, making it farm to table is a noble Maine profession.

Fall is a busy time on a Maine fall farm acreage spread. You gotta eat. You and I are what we eat and knowing where the food came from is key. Grow your own takes away the mystery of how it was grown, where it is from and what it was treated with or not.

What You See In Outdoor Picnics In Maine. Wildlife, Pure And Natural Scenery.

This year, fall colors that are usually a big draw for vacation leaf peeking tourists is missing.

Their absence blamed on COVID19 hanging around in the background that derails the usual numbers faithfully flocking to Maine. But what about the leave colors? Let’s take a look at what the experts say about leaf color in Maine and all the variable. Does the dry fall in Maine weather conditions impact the foliage color intensity? A lot of how intense the colors are depends on what’s going on inside and around you in life.

Just Hanging Around, Tramped Up On A Wall Collecting Dust. But Not Able To Sneeze.

Maine is all about being pretty much living outdoors all four seasons.

And the impact of whatever fall leave colors we get up here in Maine can ebb and flow higher due to how’s life treating you. Fall is hunters on the prowl and wildlife a little antsy. Just like COVID19 has made folks a tad edgy, the Maine wildlife get tired of hide and go seek to stay alive. To avoid being moved to a chest type freezer and part of body hoisted high and placed on a wall as a trophy reminder of the fall hunt up in Maine. Have you been to Maine to sneak a peak and play the hunting game of hide and seek chasing game birds, white tail deer, black bear and maybe a picked by lottery game of chance Maine moose?

Heading North, Hitting The ITS Trails In Maine.

I think the high notes of bright red and high voltage yellows are missing in fall foliage this year.

The lack of moisture did not crank up the color wheel brightness and lack of moisture is not the only variants. Temperatures can play a hand in what fall leave colors get rolled and displayed too.

Chilly evenings, cool mornings are part of the leave color recipe.

As we warm our hands and heart by open fire pits. We start thinking of winter snowmobile trails, getting on a sled and riding to places you can not get to by car. Where a blanket of new white snow is the roadway and carefully groomed to ease the in and out to access the wonders of Maine not everyone gets to experience.

The farmer’s almanac says just light affects fall leave colors.

The Maine forest is inhabited by lots of tree species. Each type of tree around us in Maine has its own sheet music to follow when fall happens. Yellow and orange that dominate the color scheme are the instrument of certain tree types.

The scarlet and variations of green hues are the product of other timber variety out in the Maine woods.

And it is not just trees that Jack Frost uses to change up the color scheme of nature’s surroundings up here in Maine. Bushes chime in with adapted colors as their contribution to the rich fall colors in Maine. We can all agree that fall foliage is dependent on chemistry to happen. Day length and temperatures are a big catalyst for Maine’s fall leave colors. These two factors provide the memo to trees to get ready for winter. To back off the summer food making and shift it up.

The View From Peekaboo Mountain’s Fire Tower. Welcome To The Harvest Colors Of Maine!

Stop the production of green chlorophyll and prepare for snow fall and let go of your leaves boys and girls.

The chemicals carotenoids and anthocysnins roll in to rush to the tips of all the tree limbs that cause the red, orange, yellows and maroon color shades. The sky color can impact what you get for the fall leave foliage experience too. Just like wind can strip trees of leaves to display colors of any kind, the cobalt blue or meh gray and dirty white shades of the sky create the help or hurt canvas of fall leave display intensity.

I’ll tell you one other variable in fall colors in Maine is the display around the Maine waterfront.

Take a smooth as glass ripple free lake to reflect whatever fall colors you do get. That mirror adds to the fall leave color dimension and spreads the colors in a natural amplification.Warm weather temperatures across Maine impacted our fall leave colors this year. The warmer than normal degree readings and lack of dips into cold sections of the thermometer early and late in the day made for more plain jane fall colors. Or the coronovirus impacting everyone’s life could be part of the problem.

The Vivid, Exciting Colors Of Maine Fall Leaves! Head To The Woods, Experience Fall In Maine Where Social Distancing Is A Snap To Maintain.

Mainer’s are wondering about how do you safely socially distance trick or treat in the approaching Halloween ahead?

Worried if school and sporting schedules will hold and continue. It all depends on the virus spiking or not in rural small town Maine where we seem to have more of a fighting survival chance. Cheers (clinking cold mugs of freshly pressed apple cider and pumpkin flavored local micro brews) Maine is wonderful any season for any reason. Those that work virtually and remote online up in Maine are happy about the continued warm temperatures. But also thinking ahead and wondering how winter will treat them as they hunker down and telecommute up here in Vacationland.

Fall foliage colors in Maine.

Thank you for stopping by the Me In Maine blog post today! Where to visit, when to come to Maine for the peak leave colors. What does history say on the peak colors of fall in Maine trend? It is indicating this weekend is peak leave color time for Northern Maine’s section seven. Check the link for more on the leave colors of fall foliage in Maine.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

October 4, 2020
Rocks Popping Up On A Maine Lake Due To Low Water Levels.

Maine lakes have more rocks, due to low water levels and no rain for too long a stretch of dry, hot summer weather.

Rocks Exposed On Maine Lakes Due To Low Water Levels.

Farmers are concerned, harvest has started and the yield is smaller sized crops. The Maine rivers on a starvation of water diet along with COVID19 social distancing rules have not helped raft guides either. It’s like someone turned off the spigot and gravel river beds and scratched bedrock are exposed around the corners of Maine. It makes you wonder how the fish travel up or down streams when the liquid highway is dry as a bone. They must lace up sneakers for the hike or die stranded in increasingly shrinking water pools.

On a Maine lake where I live, more bird perches rise up as water levels drop.

The Same Rock Reef Last Winter On A Maine Lake. This Fall Water Levels Are Low. More Rocks Showing This Year Than The Last One On Lakes In Maine.

Rock reefs with new stones where you never saw them due to Maine lake low water levels. That’s Maine today! Like bones poking out of a lake thirsty for water. Low water translates to more seating options for the otters, the water foul the result and more obvious boat hazards.

You would not think of white sea gulls flapping their wings to get up to Northern Maine either.

But they are. In the early morning as the sun rises and steam from the lake water being warmer than the air temperatures of late September you hear them. Crying, communicating like they are bickering or complaining to anyone who will listen. Not as pretty a song as the haunting ones sung on the open water in the evenings by Maine lake loons.

Seagulls in Maine. You expect them at the day at the Maine beach with the kids looking for a quick snatch.

Panhandling the sun worshipers and like beach bums. But seagulls in Northern Maine and many hours away from the craggy rock bound coast of Vacationland. Maybe it’s the french fries from the local McDonalds that draws them in. They sit in a line on a rock reef that acts as a breakwater off the little and big lake. Drews Lake, where I spend the majority of the year these days up in Maine.

Lots of other folks have the same notion due to COVID19 and especially if they can get long and strong Internet broadband connections for working remotely online in Maine.

When the fish are jumping, the seagulls hop to it and soar up, then dive down to steal the fish dinner away from other birds. Wildlife are a big part of the entertainment on a Maine lake viewed from shore or out in a boat. Around the 4th of July, more fireworks happen too when summer days turn into night. The echo of thundering booms and bright lights of all kinds exploding in the Maine lake reflection makes you reflect on another year in Maine that pass too quickly. (more…)

September 23, 2020
Getting Away From People Part Of The Maine Attraction

Getting space, away from people part of the Maine attraction. Less people can remove many problems, cure a lot of ills.

Maine is a state that is vast, sparsely population except for a handful of city population centers. Long before COVID19 entered your life, Maine was a favorite retreat and why “Vacationland” is stamped on the bottom of all our vehicle license plates. The fun is slow cooked, home grown and involves the entire Maine small town community.

Summer Concerts, Small Maine Town Music Events Always Well Attended.

Lots of Maine land, cheaply priced and no neighbors please.

That request heard a from many. Part of it is I want space and elbow room around me that sadly has been missing for way too long. And no neighbors but great Internet connections. In the past, the folks heading to Maine lament most of their problems in life have involved other people. If they could just get away from living so tightly together, life would be grand. Set me up with a small piece of Maine land for starters. Used on vacations and then leading to more for many put in the wild blue yonder audience.

If the Maine land borders some water frontage or a big view all the better.

Tack on a view and now you’re talking Mister Man. Many ask about how it works, the seller involved Maine land owner financing . That causes the conversation to lead to soil testing Maine land. What about building permits in whatever small Maine town the land is located?

Space, On Land, On The Water In Maine. Folks Crave It In Vacationland Now More Than Ever Thanks To COVID19 Enter The Crowded Spinning Planet.

In my day job as a Maine REALTOR I meet lots of interesting people.

One fellow buying land in Hersey Maine a submariner from Holland. Who during the World War II he was part of the 26 submarine fleet flying the waterproof Dutch flag. Until the Germans took over and he and his boat crew, the entire naval fleet was told where to report to an English base for training and re-fueling measures. While his country’s government went into exile until after the war ended. My dad was a B-24 tail gunner at war high up in the air against the same enemy as Andy Spyker who found the battle underwater in a U-boat style vessel. Who grew up in Holland but in a round about way ended up in Northern Maine.

Everyone In The World War II. One Dutch Submariner Exiled From Holland Ended Up Moving To Maine.

This Maine land buyer wanted a low population down, to stretch his budget with lots of acreage for little money.

He built a modest home and enjoyed peace and quiet and sharing it with no neighbors. He like a lot of others started out buying Maine land. Using it more and more as something is built on it and added to slowly and using their own two hands. Great satisfaction comes from those endeavors where you are actively involved with the A to Z process and guide the process to “have it your way”.

Another couple buying property in Maine flew their four cats in to Vacationland on board a private chartered jet.

Checking Out Maine Real Estate, Not Being Done Just On Line.

The sleek silver twin engine bird set down at Houlton International Airport for the night. Released the cargo to my care until the owners could get here with the rest of their belonging. The couple did not want their cats to fly coach. This private jet flight that cost $15,000 to fly to Maine from the Northwest corner of the country was a drop in the bucket. The large country home with land bought in a town of 100 people six miles tall and six miles wide was purchased by selling so many shares of tech stocks.

When you live long enough in a rural area, you forget there is lots of money in other places.

Growing up in a small rural Maine town teaches you to be resourceful and develop your DIY skills. To remove money from the equation that you get used to not relying on to survive. To enjoy wherever you feel very fortunate to live in Maine. I met a lot of incredible local characters in the small Maine towns I list and sell in around Vacationland.

Many are related, some have a red addition, collect a certain brand of antique farm tractors.

Why they live in Maine.

Others relocated from high pressure jobs and tired of hobnobbing with the jet set. They decide had another stress, missed out on many things that the climb up the career ladder caused that they now regret. Making up for lost time is part of the move to Maine. To live and enjoy not race through life that we all know is too short. Or the plan all along was to move to the urban area, do your time and break free. Move back to Maine with a whole new perspective.

Moving To Maine, COVID19 Causing Online Remote Job Workers To Bring Their Remote Jobs With Them To Maine.

Now with COVID19 in the picture, working from home in the move to Maine means gotta have strong Internet broad band connection and speeds.

This work online remotely group of Maine real estate buyers will help stop the census numbers bleeding. The loss of folks that no longer find jobs so plentiful in the agriculture and timber industries and forced to leave Maine looking for employment. COVID19 will help stabilize the Maine population drain is the trend I am seeing in the real estate market numbers.

Listed and sold a Maine home recently to a buyer who met his wife in Argentina.

He was from Australia and the two relocated from Nashville Tennessee. Big World made smaller thanks to the Internet used to attract the couple to a small Maine town way of life. And because the same Internet allows the couple to bring their online remote jobs with them. Getting a safe, lower cost friendly way of living in small town Maine while enjoying a healthy income that stretches a lot further. So many lines on the people moving to Maine list of reasons.

More Bang For Your Buck. Know What This Maine Victorian Home Would Cost Anywhere Else? Too Much To Buy But Not In Rural Maine.

To someone living here all their life, there is deep unshakeable gratitude for being here in Maine.

But comparing small town values and our way of life to somewhere not so friendly or healthy really shows a person the sharp contrast. People caring about each other, stepping up to volunteer for the greater good collectively. Not so commonplace in other parts. Just not happening where eye contact is avoids as you grip your wallet hard. Where life is cheap, not so valuable to someone with a knife or gun.

Places over populated and you are lost in a sea of faces in the shoulder to shoulder crowd.

Where you are always living with a little fear and a lot of caution to avoid putting yourself in a box canyon. That’s not living even if it is the norm in many places where 8 our of 10 people call a city home. Moving to Maine up the I-95 pike is happening and small nooks and crannies in Maine are being discovered on the hunt for space and safety and a better way of life.

More Less, Less Price Tag. Rural Maine Real Estate Values Are Attractive, So Tempting Especially During COVID19 Lifestyle Adjustments Everyone Is Making.

COVID19 has just added more to like about Maine beyond the low numbers of folks contracting the virus.

Socially distant is easier when you are one of the lucky ones living in Maine. We lived social distance before it was cool. Were country before that lifestyle took off and they changed C&W music to the Americana label. The lake properties in Maine that were used as camps for out of state vacationers are being eyed for much more too. The owners already had a test run taste of what living in Maine on vacation was like. Now turning the camp into a full time lake home that has spurred the local economy as local carpenters, plumbers, electricians who are working around the clock.

Planes and cruise ships might be idle. But the local small town Maine community economies are booming.

The Internet connections around the Maine lakes and many communities are taxed to the max to capacity in the place dubbed Vacationland. More space but laced with Internet connections make rural Maine suddenly the belle of the ball attractive.

Taking The Snow Sled To The Ice Fishing Shack. Spending The Day Outside In Maine No Matter Which Season! Space, Wall To Wall Wide Open Space Just The Norm All Around You In Maine.

It’s like the smaller transport shuttle is being reworked to replace the bigger Star Ship Enterprise.

Rethinking what is the most important in life. Some hard life living decisions are being put into action. The less is more minimalist movement already started quite nicely before given the big nudge by the Coronovirus entered the picture. Getting away from people makes Maine a perfect fit for many. Technology, distance learning, working online remotely from Maine all made the transition to rural small towns easy if they are. Knowing where your food comes from and what it was or was not sprayed with before arriving. Another reason to grow your own, a better way to rock and roll is being discussed.

Folks already longed for the simpler way of life but working from home in a city helped train them turning the corner faster. To take the appropriate steps to warp to Maine and change everything up big time. Trading in big city lights, all the traffic and horrendous nightly crime news accounts that numb a person and desensitize. The Maine fresh air, clear water and all this wide open space is like someone freed a cage two legged animal. “Why did I wait so long?” is another question I hear muttered by many buying land, moving to Maine.

Maine, Forget The High Powered Rifle And Shoot The Wildlife, Nature With A Camera. Climb Recently Up Mt Katahdin, Maine’s Highest Mountain.

Getting away from people moving to Maine is part of it mask or not.

But then joining forces with the locals to become very involved in the community is a big part of the reverse exodus from city to rural living in Maine.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houtlon ME 04730 USA

September 15, 2020
Midcoast Maine Lighthouses

Midcoast Maine lighthouses.

This blog post about adding to the midcoast Maine lighthouse collection, soaking in some coastal harbor life. Have done blog posts before on Maine lighthouses. Over sixty of them to collect and add to the lighthouse photo collections like coins you fit into the currency slots in the tri-fold blue holders. With over five dozen Maine lighthouses, it may take a lifetime to hunt down and capture the all on still film or digital video.

Watch this Mid Coast Maine Harbor Lighthouse Cruise Video.

Winter Maine lighthouse photos are even more memorable when focusing and changing f-stops, exposure settings when you can see your breath.

And your fingers tingle and your perch to shoot from is icy or snow covered. No problem with black flies or mosquitoes though in the dead of Maine winter solitude. Save your sunscreen too as you zip up the parka after you tuck in the wool scarf. This blog post designed to be helpful, to give you fresh content and leave you fed with more community flavor of Maine leaving then you had entering.

The Many Islands Off Maine’s Midcoast… Like Torn Ragged Fabric That Extends Off Bony Peninsular Land Fingers.

Not many tourists around the Maine lighthouses when white stuff is in the air or piling up on the ground.

Vacations during COVID19 are way closer to home now but being in Maine never makes a person feel stuck for travel. The circles you travel are safer, smaller, closer to home during the Coronavirus pandemic. But I can not think of a better place than Maine to be with or without the COVID19 spell that has transformed life as we know it today. We adapt quicker to set backs and work arounds in Maine due to the take nothing for granted with a stay positive approach to our day to day living.

I have blogged about Maine lighthouses before several times.

Even ones across the International border into Canadian provinces. The life of someone living in a lighthouse carries a lot of mystic and sea shore history no matter where it is located on the blue and green marble. Lighthouses make you think of the keeper who tends it. But also the naval boat transportation going back and forth around it out on the open water loaded with navigation perils. The reason the lighthouse is located where it is to protect the mariner fisherman, pleasure boats and anything that floats for a boat.

The East Point Lighthouse In Prince Edward Island. One Of Many PEI Lighthouses Due To It’s Island Nature.

The lighthouse no matter where it is a personal passion and each if different for the take away experience.

Visit the same lighthouse but try not just summer and give the other seasons a chance. What a difference colorful leaves, white snow or the greenery make to the same Maine lighthouse visit.

We are lucky to live in Maine where social distancing is much easier due to our sparse population.

Less out of state or country tourists, no cruise ships of passengers crowding down the gang plank these days in the Vacationland called Maine. This past weekend Meg and I used Ocean Point Inn as the discovery point for mid coast Maine. This Me In Maine blog is a hungry child. The blog posts don’t write themselves and need new eye candy, more hunt and peck about new uncovered areas of the state. So lighthouses in Maine around the Boothbay region collected over the weekend to share with you on a blog post today. Take a gander of a few to relish and enjoy. Here is Perkins Island lighthouse located near the coastal town of Georgetown, Maine.

Perkins Island Lighthouse – Georgetown Maine. Pretty Red Lens To Warn Sailors About Rocks.

Floating By Perkins Island Lighthouse ME On The Coast Of Maine.

The Kennebec River lighthouse tour promised up to seven of Maine’s finest. East Boothbay Harbor like other small Maine harbor towns quickly adjusted in creative ways to offer safe vacation packages. Everyone wears a mask. No one is crowded in tightly. There is a common sense system in place. Besides plexiglass barriers and hand sanitizers and latex glove stations everywhere you turn, people respect your space. You do the same in return. Here are some more Maine lighthouse images.

Navigational Helpers When Everything Came In And Out Of Maine By Water.

Maine’s Pond Island Lighthouse. Helps Ship Avoid Colliding Into One Rather Large Coastal Rock.

All Different, Built Uniquely And Over Time. Maine’s Lighthouse Collection Is Impressive. This Is Cuckold’s Lighthouse.

Doubling Point Lighthouse… How Many Maine Lighthouses Have You Visited? Before I Leave Earth, Hope To Collect All Of Them. Maine Has Over Sixty Lighthouses To Sample Today!

Where we stayed in East Boothbay At The Ocean Point Inn was staffed by a dozen hard working, friendly trained professionals from Jamaican heritage.

It reminded me of a cruise ship’s International feel because folks from all parts of the World on a big boat are your vacation partners.Rain on Saturday so we zipped over to LL Bean which limited shoppers inside the mother store to just 275 people. The lady with the clicker says hold it, wait on the six foot spacing symbol until someone comes out so you can enter please.

The Famous LL Bean All Season Boot. A Big One At The Mother Store Of LL Bean In Freeport ME

Even without safety barriers, we were brought up in Maine to give other space long before COVID19 arrived.

Manners a big part of it and respect for other’s space is easier when your state’s population is sparse. Our geographic location this far north helps keep the crowds of tourist in easy does it.

With new rain coats, the under layers to brace some coastal winds, Meg and I were ready for Sunday’s cruise up the Kennebec River. The Maine coast line is like a worn out flag fabric. Broken, uneven, jagged and trailing off into the sea. We climbed aboard Cap’n Fish’s big sight seeing boat tour shortly after it floated into its berth at pier eight in Boothbay Harbor Maine. We were hunting for lighthouses, not whales this trip for a spin around the mid coast section of Maine.

All Aboard And Masked, COVID19 Spaced And Then Some. Cap’n Fish’s Coastal Lighthouse Adventures Was Fun And Fruitful. Eye Candy Collected For This Me In Maine Blog Post Edition.

The peninsular fingers or Maine land mass that jut out into the Atlantic Ocean where lighthouses live.

Each bony finger of land mass trails off from the Maine land heading toward over coastal 3000 islands. Those usually down a hill into a Maine harbor communities that are only connected by a water highway to those island jewels are vacation destinations that take eat up time. To wind and weave around twisting up and down narrow highways to access. Most not right off an Interstate 95 exit and not quick to access the further north you push up into the heartland of Maine.

On a map a tourist could think let’s hit a buffet style of several small Maine Harbor towns on each vacation trip.

Not on land you don’t behind the wheel using two, three or four wheels. The travel inland and then back out to sea a little south or north or east of where you start out takes time. Only so much daylight to waste. More precious vacation time chewed up when the weather is not just blue skies and sunshine simple. So plan that your coastal vacations in Maine will be one of many taken over your lifetime.

Some Lighthouses Are Great For Bird Nesting But Just Automated Without The History Or Charm.

To see more mid coast Maine lighthouses among the islands and along the shoreline means park your car.

Find a gang plank. Grab the pair of rails and climb aboard. Climb aboard a boat. Because accessing more than one lighthouse, seeing the sights of more than one island or harbor town in Maine can happen with ease. Your highway is marked by green, red floating buoy channel markers. Watch out for the lobster pots of many colors along the way to whatever the four color tourism brochure promises.

Vacationing along the coast of Maine.

Maine lighthouses are great bait that always catch a person’s interest. Make your target stop long enough to savor what each area offers that you don’t want to miss. And stay loose because the weather patterns in Maine are never predictable or boring. Change is a constant way of life in your Maine outdoor plans during both during work or on vacations.

What other mid coast Maine light houses did we see?

Let me show them to you, the new ones and different angles on old ones in the Maine lighthouse collection. That’s fodder for a future Maine blog post edition. Okay, you want more. Just one more Maine lighthouse. Two small twin ones. Doubling Point Lighthouse.

Take Two, Their Small Lighthouses. This Pair On The Kennebec.

Also saw a house on the coast of Maine where the Wicked Witch of the West spent her leisure time when the broom was turned off and propped in the corner.

She also was known for her coffee commercials. Margaret Hamilton AKA Elmira Gulch AKA WW of the West took her vacations in this red house with the American flag. The one flying in late afternoon we shot a picture of on the way by during our wrap up of the Maine sea cruise.

A Wicked Witch Of The West Spent Summers Here. Maine Cast A Spell On Margaret Hamilton. Who Also Pushed Maxwell Coffee Not Just Flew Blooms And Terrorized Dorothy, Her Little Dog Toto Too.

Vacations, short ones can happen when you live in Maine and are only a few hours away or closer to the peaceful places that enrich your life.

Hope the images from mid coast Maine lighthouses added to the collection and other coast captures planted into this blog post were a worthwhile experience. People are busy and something worthwhile when you take the time to stop by to read a Maine blog post is what all of us are after right? Fresh content on everything, anything Maine is the hungry beast this blog has grown to become. Thank you for following our post.

Let’s face it, there are lots of areas in Maine to love and return to through out the year.

Bath Iron Works, BIW Passed On The Kennebec River Sea Cruise Collection Lighthouse Images.

Many who make these familiar haunts in Maine a regular visit end up relocating to them full time.

Like the snow birds who flock to Florida or southern points to be free of snow shovel use, vacationers check out Maine the same way. You might discover a location in Maine that appeals to you because a friend already hangs out there. And they invited you to try it, you might like it too.

Maine’s mountain hiking and skiing or snow sledding trails are pretty vast and memorable vacation backdrops. The interior farms and lumbering enterprises are a big part of Maine’s heritage too. But coastal water where lobster hide, salty sea breezes and schooner ships gliding by Maine lighthouses are quite the memorable experience for all of us.

Thank you for sampling this part of Maine, around the Boothbay Harbor area like we did last weekend.

Lots Of Fishing, Tourist Boat Rides, Other Industry In The Maine Harbors Of Vacationland.

Hope the mid coast Maine lighthouse images, other photos from this region of Vacationland were enjoyed.

Taking them and writing about the experience sure was. The shoulder seasons are the best time to experience Maine. COVID19 just made the spacing even better for a tourist looking to avoid crowds to hog the surroundings without having to share any.

Everyone needs a vacation and putting them off too long during COVID19 makes a person edgy.

Maine has safe sensible vacation options to rest and relax but at the same time being very careful. To not spread or contract the Coronavirus to others or catch it ourselves. Thank you for staying aboard this long on our mid coast Maine lighthouse tour blog post.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

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MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

September 2, 2020
Building Your Own Smaller Home On Land In Maine.

Building your own smaller home on land in Maine.

With COVID19 pandemic adjustment to day to day living, the desire to find affordable land listings in Maine has increased. Maine was already the number one state in the nation for second home ownership. But the spike headed Coronavirus cell just increased the demand for Maine land for the sheer get away and be safe far from city population clusters.

More Wildlife Than People To Read The Local Small Town Newspaper In Maine.

Another cause of real estate buyers on the hunt for Maine land to build a smaller home on it is due to the shortage of existing housing supply.

Sellers in Maine have re-thought listing and letting go of their real estate due to COVID19 and assessing where they live. Most in Maine would agree why would you want to be anywhere but Vacationland with or without the Coronavirus? More on the Maine real estate market report now that the COVID19 effects can be tracked in listings and property sale statistics.

One more reason land, just Maine land is a big part of the local listing and selling is there is so much of it in Vacationland.

With lower populations in all the small communities dotting the Maine land map in Maine’s sixteen counties, the supply of land stays healthy and undervalued. Large supply, low prices, plenty of selection of Maine land is the perfect combination. COVID19 just increased the focus on Maine as the best scenario financially and for the sheer natural beauty.

Land listings in Maine sales always had a big following.

Cheap outdoor camping vacations on the small land acreages in Maine are fun and popular. Often the lower cost Maine land is bought with owner financing terms. The previous owner seller financed the land buyer and the property does not need to be replaced like a house with a mortgage. Which needs to be paid off to have a real estate closing. Maine land can be easily bought on affordable installments. And the next thing you know, the land is no longer mortgages, free and clear.That’s the best kind.

The Maine land for sale used for vacation fun is also a hedge investment if things get to hairy in the city living. If a land investor, you could use the land full time or at least half the year down the road. When you the owner retires and becomes a snow bird headed to the sunny south where no snow shovel is needed to handle the white stuff.

Camp built on the Maine land beside a lake or river or if you are really lucky the Maine coastal ocean location.

How’s that sound? Maine land becomes used for more than recreational once in a while past-time vacation place. Many camps, cabins, cottages evolve into the house that Jack built. Those study but misfit constructed shacks might be a little rough to undo, redo, make do. They were built on a limited or none existent budget or over simplified but the structure did the trick.

The camp or cabin slowly built and reconstructed over the years. To offer shelter and enjoyment up in Maine away from the city crowds and bumper to bumper traffic is a source of pride and entertainment location. But if not maintained, time and Mother Nature can cause them to go into disrepair and eventually collapse. The local wildlife can take up occupancy and further accelerate the structure’s decline. (more…)

August 21, 2020