No thank you, it’s carry in, carry out in Maine. I was taught to pick up after myself.
Everyone Enjoys Outdoor Maine Lake Ice Fishing. Even The Family Dog.
But now that we’re on the subject, who taught you how to litter? Are you good at littering? Would you consider yourself an amateur or professional or in-between level litter bug?
Littering, sounds strange when asked about a skill or talent that helps no one.
But how best to help ” give a hoot, don’t pollute”? (Thanks Woodsy Owl. Like to come out of retirement?)
This Maine blog post about littering, what makes a litter bug let fly.
Keep It Clean. The Air, Water, Earth. Give A Hoot, Don’t Pollute!
To open the window wide. Toss the Happy Meal packaging remains out through the hole where glass used to be.
You could take the approach that litter creates jobs. The highway clean-up crews and effort put into recycling litter all pump lots of money into the economy.
Is it like no no, don’t take your shopping cart to the parking corral or push one back into the store thinking.
Because someone makes a living, can be hired to do that for you. Even though inside more and more shopping places, you and I are being trained to scan and bag our own items. Then asked to rate how did you do with the five-star option. I’d give myself a five for a fine job bagging and tagging at the Wally World or Piggly Wiggly check out.
Any Season Is The Right One To Visit Maine.
So littering when walking along a Maine hiking nature park trail or around home.
Done with the empty bottle or can, the candy or gum wrapper, the food container. Throw it, get rid of the debris on your four wheeling or snowmobile stop. Just let gravity do what it does best here on Earth.
Maine’s Mt Katahdin Is Almost A Mile High. Carry In, Carry Out And Protect Maine’s Tallest Mountain Hiking Trail Camping Experience.
Park the car.
Statistics show most littering in Maine done by motorists and usually in the 30 something age group. Tossed on a highway means you can get away from your litter at 55 miles or faster and less apt to know who generated it right? But take a walk down over into the road highway ditch. Littering along a beautiful Maine highway or hiking trail is not pretty. Not many would argue about that right?
Family Fun Is Always Outdoors In Maine
But nothing worse than a Maine blog post that shames.
Instead, how to be proactive in understanding the “why” folks litter. I never saw my parents litter. I was brought up to pick up and put litter where it should go… into a garbage pail. So not made to clean up after yourself or just not caring. Is it just lazy?
Take a trip to a third world country and it’s whoa.
Look at all the garbage, everywhere in heaped deep layers around you. It smells, is not sanitary and contaminates. Garbage can be industrial littering where jobs over the environment tkaes priority.
Or just no structure in place for here’s what you do with with littler on any level ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
If the increase in litter because of the higher cost to get rid of it?
Maine Would Love To Have More European Tourists From Across The Atlantic Ocean.
No more backing up the family sedan on Saturday morning at a small Maine town dump. To throw another bag or two where the black bears are never far away.
The bulldoze operator idling and ready to pack it down and cover it up to remove it from sight. To ready the land fill dump for the next deposit. Land fills in Maine, those did not help the ground water quality.The black bears were entertaining though.
Take the case of an appliance now that wears out?
Where does it go if not a recycling center transfer station? Dump along an old woods road on someone’s private property?
One of the best ways to cure littering is to grab a pair of gloves, a large refuse bag.
Then high ho, let’s go comb a stretch of Maine highway garbage together. Everyone should take a turn.
Why not adopt a stretch of roadway or trail, parkway to tidy up on a regular basis. Make it a family or civic, school, church group regular event. Not just in spring. Maine highway vegetation can hide a lot of garbage.
Awareness of how bad the situation is often requires hands on, up close and personal inspection of what’s out there for litter.
To study the sheer amount that piles up along a Maine highway over time.
Got This Maine Cat In A Real Estate Property Sale.
Broken bottles are dangerous. Wildlife has to deal with six pack plastic rings that will never biodegrade.
Left where a Maine lake ice shack sat that just becomes part of the waterfront habitat below.
Shifting up to bulk buying to avoid the individual packaging something to promote?
Why not join a co op and bring your own containers to reduce packaging waste?
Do you have a compost bin out by your garden where you give the crank a heck of a yank?
I’ve witnessed the highway road crews collecting the returnable bottles, collecting the debris each spring in Maine.
Winter must be the peak time for litter bugs.
Or harder to get out to retrieve it. When what’s tossed is out of sight and mind under white fluffy snow during shorter days of light.
As you lead a crew picking up litter it’s hard to not think about how to stop the sheer volume of it.
As you toil, you think what steps need to be taken for this constant clean up procedure to become unnecessary.
Just how best to reduce the growing amount of litter in Maine?
Singing, Crying, Or Paddling By In Silence. Maine Lake Loons.
Sure glad Maine has a bottle redemption law. No billboards to pollute the highways with distracting message either.
Littering, why people do it? Is it like the Hank Williams Jr song that littering is “a family tradition”?
Hope not.
Remember the classic litter campaign PSA’s?
Sometimes the trash, litter floats in from across the pond washing up on the coast of Maine.
There are more productive uses of time and money than picking up trash and litter after someone else. With a few adjustments. litter can be reduced or eliminated.
No, don’t need another law on the books about the stiff penalty for littering.
It’s all about education for young grasshoppers. Who help convert older family litter bug members to see the error of their ways.
Clean, Outdoors, Unspoiled. That Is Maine, The Way Life Should Be!
Falsetto parenting, where Mom or Dad throw their voice into a higher register like Frankie Valli.
To plead please don’t litter Jimmy or Jane.
That’s not the best way to cause litter reduction.
But if kids don’t practice pick up after yourself at home, they sure are not going to out in the World.
Like quitting smoking, the movement to stop littering takes awareness, education and a statewide approach.
Stopping By For A Slurp Of Sweet Syrup, Maine Hummingbirds Give Winds A Rest.
I worked at Maine Broadcasting in Bangor during and after graduating from the University of Maine in Orono.
Fred Nutter would do editorials on the direction the state of Maine should be taking or correcting. Summing it all up with “that’s our opinion, we welcome yours”. Wonder if Fred ever did an editorial on Maine littering?
At Baxter State Park, there is a famous rock to remind all it takes effort.
To keep it clean, to preserve beautiful four season Maine.
The huge rock boulder is called Pockwockamus at the entrance to Baxter State Park in Maine.
Set On Stone, Don’t Pollute, Give A Hoot! Pockwockmus Rock, Baxter State Park.
Colorfully decorated with a stone billboard reminder it is up to you and I to keep it clean and pristine. Keep Maine beautiful.
No People, No Man Made Structure Or Noises. Welcome To Baxter State Park’s Mt Katahdin.
Recycling helps reduce the trash, Maine litter.
Keeping trash items in a bag inside a vehicle until you arrive at a place to dispose of them. While traveling instead of throwing debris, garbage out a car window, save it, hold it until you get to a place to deposit litter.
Respect, How To Enjoy Maine And Keep It Clean! One Pastime Learned From Your Loved Ones.
Maybe like the “I voted” or gave blood sticker, there could be a version for a litter bug with a circle slash through the trash image. Or a lineup of five Mainers and the simple question “Can you spot the litter bug?” Keep it clean, it’s your planet, state, local Maine community. Please don’t litter. Keep Maine beautiful.
Maine is a handful of cities and over 450 small towns, plantations, unorganized areas. More open space and wildlife, less people and no billboards.
There is no shortage of opinions on anything these days. Where you should be living is one of those hot topics. Strong opinions and often the pros and cons are deeply personal.
Attractive, Preserved Victorian Style Brick Buildings In Market Square, Houlton Maine. Maine is full of small friendly towns.
This blog post is to spell out the what to expect without the sharp barbs or any resentments about small Maine town life.
For starters, who best to describe living in a small Maine town then someone who lives there full time.
Not a scathing report based on never set foot in Maine, never ever been there but I’ve heard blah blah blah. Or and here-say from one or two not so happy campers where the complaint experience might be legit or their own short comings caused.
So small town living in Maine, anywhere has a garden variety list of differences compared to a populated setting.
Small towns are fewer cars and traffic, more unspoiled outdoors. You experience lower crime, less pollution, friendlier first name basis living but not everything at your fingertips.
Vacationing In Maine. Returning To The Same Favorable Haunts Or Somewhere New? Maine is small town, not crowded, not riddled with crime.
The “gotta have and don’t want” list changes in your life no matter where you hang your hat.
Quality of life, healthier simple living is attractive but as parts wear out, medical centers come into the consideration of where you should live.
Too expensive to live somewhere causes moves, relocations to Maine.
Or you can not afford to retire where you are now can make you go online to do a Maine real estate search. If you live now in a not so great place to raise a family, the pack up the moving truck maneuver is on many folk’s radar these days. Or over population, high taxes, crime and temperatures can cause the pull the plug to want to live off grid in a Maine homestead with land.
So Maine small town, what it is like?
A Toby Keith song but all the time? Everybody thinks my tractor is sexy Kenny Chesney like? I’ve blogged about 4000 population towns in Maine and it is all relative.
How small is the size you are examining for a Maine town?
If the town is 100 people, you might have a church or two, maybe a small convenience gas station outlet nearby to tide you over. Until the trip to a larger population center that can support a Dollar General or maybe a small Piggly Wiggly or Yankee Grocery food store.
Life Is A Maine Beach. Salt Water, Fresh Air, A Summer Breeze At A Maine Beach.
Small town living in Maine can make you think of out west in the farm belt.
Or a small coal mining community where farming or mining is pretty much all your have. Healthy Maine small communities are diversified and don’t have all their eggs in one economic basket.
Farming, woodwork, fishing, tourism for the sportsmen, families on camping trips are all big. So is transportation because unfold the map. See all those miles that separate small Maine towns from large population centers? That’s a big 10-4 on trucking in and out the goods we need and what we grow or create heading the other direction.
Working On A Small Maine Farm. Kids Benefit, The Farmer Wins Too!
So the life in a small Maine town.
You hear about a fire in your home town from a neighbor who posted a photo or two on social media. Or someone down at the service station or in the aisles of Walmart mentions did you hear about it?
If you are two or three degrees separation from the person in the news or making it, you hear through the family grapevine.
If you are not from the small Maine town originally, you will hear some negatives about never being accepted. Or feeling like a true local native of the Maine small town.
More Outdoor Space, Owning More Land With Your Home In Maine. Working Together To Earn Your Keep.
But if you volunteer, join a local club, church or school event, you will make new friends. If you are not always complaining about back in Jersey or wherever you lived last or grew up on how they do it better.
You are valuable if you are a worker, an asset to a small Maine town.
If you have a positive attitude and hopefully a sense of humor, that is a plus when moving to a small Maine town.
Live Music, A Maine Community Band Supplies It Weekly For Free. That’s Maine.
If you are from a sprawling urban area with million of people, it is hard to get your head wrapped about a small Maine town population of under 1000. Lake resort communities in Maine that swell and then go back to small numbers as the “snowbirds” head to the sunny south or southwest.
Long distances to travel for goods or services are part of the drawbacks to small Maine town life.
But access to Interstate 95 makes the travel pretty easy when no traffic and designed for moving 75 miles an hour or faster.
But because we are parked a little further up the pike, the surroundings become less traveled and more unspoiled all natural. Look up, see the stars on a walk at night? Hear the crickets and Maine lake loons in the moonlight? You can not duplicate that in a city setting.
Taught How To Fish, Survive Early In Life. Missing His Mate, Crying About It Heard On A Maine Lake.
So what are you after, what are your expectations and how did you grow up and was it a good experience or not.
You want more of what you like, less of what you do not and a change in zip code is driven by expectations. If they are met, you stay and pitch in to add to the local community in Maine.
Our job in the Me In Maine blog is to introduce the many corners of Vacationland to the readers. Some who grew up here and appreciate what we have in small town Maine living. Others who long for it because it sounds so delicious but so foreign to where they live now. I love living in a small Maine town and think you will too!
Have a ride, signed up to race down Derby Hill in Houlton Maine?
The “Thrill of the Hill” happens again June 22nd, 2024 on Derby Hill in Community Park in Houlton Maine.
It’s year number 29 for the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby. Tech Day for new parents and drivers is May 18th at Derby Hill. Derby tech day helps teach car drivers and their support team about safety procedures. And an opportunity to order parts and for new races to test drive Derby Hill. Here’s the race course for down hill derby local and rally races.
Houlton Maine Soap Box Derby Hill Sketch When “Selling” A Piece To Local Volunteers, Contributors.
Houlton Maine’s local race on Derby Hill is the only venue if a boy or girl age 8 to 18 wants to compete in all of “Vacationland”.
Back in the 1990’s, there were five local race locations in Maine.
One of the big reasons the Houlton Maine derby committee continues the racing tradition is a specially engineered hill.
Derby Hill is fast, long and two lanes. Derby Hill has a run off area, a car return lane and a launch / storage garage at the top.
Safety Cones On Run Off Area Of Derby Hill. Houlton ME Race Largest In USA 5 Years Running.
Ease of setting up a safe course for the local annual race and for spring/fall rallies. Derby Hill is one sweet set up and kids love to race down it. Lights for night racing, guard rails in place, easy car return lane.
To keep a soap box derby program vibrant and year after year up and running means build a hill.
Taking over a street logistics and set up, tear down are too labor intensive. And none of us derby diehard volunteers are getting any younger
Check them out.
Have you watched a few Northern Maine Soap Box Derby race videos?
Reach out with questions, let’s get your young derby drivers signed up to compete in the state of Maine race June 22nd, 2024.
There are existing cars to slide behind the wheel or consider buying a new stock, super stock or master kit.
The soap box derby program in Maine teaches kids a lot.
How to assemble a car from scratch following instructions . The fun of derby program and good sportsmanship along with the science and engineering that goes into gravity downhill car racing. It sure beats sitting on a couch, inside on their device.
Anywhere in Maine, the state race in Houlton is part of soap box derby district ten.
Had two children win the local and go on to race in Akron Ohio which is an experience they will never forget. Have stayed active in the Maine soap box derby racing program since 1995 and enjoy it immensely.
Heavy Boys? Super Stock Derby Cars Can Be A Tad Heavy To Lift Up, Set Down.
Please reach out and would love to help you get started in soap box derby racing. It’s exciting car racing and gravity is your motor. It’s all downhill from here.
Anxious, Nervous, Excited All Mixed In With The Stomach Butterflies.
Tips to get your local race off the ground and how to compete with simple hacks all part of the discussion once you get “derbymania”.
Here is the All American Soap Box Derby rules to scan and consider. Maine had 5 local race sites around the state. Now the big state of Maine race is on Derby Hill, Houlton Maine. Only race course in state if the one in Aroostook County, Derby Hill. Like to learn more about the Houlton Maine soap box derby racing program or to set up your own?
Besides being the 4th lowest crime state and cheapest for car insurance premiums, Maine offers more than just cost savings. Affordable housing, unspoiled outdoor recreation and the small-town friendly vibe is a big draw trifecta.
Taking A Break In Maine On The Trail. No Foo Foo Coffees.
Maine is an ideal location if you are after a safe place to raise your family.
To start a business, the overhead is lower in a small town in Maine. Mom and Pop small business owner operators can operate cheaply and efficiently in a small Maine town setting.
The satisfaction serving your Maine small town population is a big reward and you fill an important role in the community.
You are needed in a small Maine town. Volunteering is huge to make the small community a better place to live. We make our own fun and much of the enjoyment is just the space, peace and quiet of the surrounding natural unspoiled setting.
Maine people are not in your face or pushy. You can get away from people living in a small town rural Maine setting.
Maybe you are looking for a waterfront property to use for vacations until you retire.
Here’s a log home on a Maine lake video to watch to see, hear what owning waterfront property would be like.
Maybe a farm property in Maine to horse around is the goal in your search for real estate.
Another video of a Maine home with land and major view to try on and test drive.
Planning to retire in a lower cost of living location and thought Maine is pretty unspoiled and low cost? Had a good experience on past vacations in Maine? That’s usually how it starts. A three day, week long Maine vacation and then whoa. Need more, can’t get enough happens. Maine is a healthy addiction and such a contrast to what a crowded, not so friendly urban setting provides.
Many times the move to Maine is because where you lived before used to be a lot like the small town community under the microscope for consideration.
Maine is a good idea for many people who want to spend time outdoors all year long.
Where you should live or relocate to all revolves around your lifestyle and expectations. There is no perfect location and always give and take concessions when sizing up where you should live at whatever stage of your life right?
Putting On Local Productions Like Children’s Theatre Is One Huge Volunteering Event In Maine.
Today, there are strong opinions on what you should do with everything aspect in your life. We are all surrounded by marketing with an agenda. And it seems also a shrinking tolerance for different viewpoints.
Maine is an open-minded state and big enough so you can protect your privacy and living space.
More wildlife than people and spread out acreage has its advantages.
Common sense found in large supply in small Maine communities.
It still works here. Lots of sage advice and tried/tested options for best life practices are discussed daily down at the local diner or corner Maine convenience store or gas station.
Money From Working For Area Farmers. How To Make Your Own Money, Not Spend Mom And Dad’s Important Skill.
All I know is I like no traffic, lower cost of living, more of a connection with my friends, family and neighbors. I like pitching in and volunteering in my small Maine town. Finding the positive strengths and grateful. Not slamming where I live with what I don’t like about rural small town Maine is my attitude.
This blog outlines what the locals do for fun. The outdoor unspoiled natural beauty is hard to beat. There is a long list of reasons why people move to Maine and how to prepare for the relocation best.
How we approach living in a small Maine town is kept simple in Maine.
Help others living here. Be kind. Protect the environment. Work hard to make a difference. Family first.
Continue traditions and respect nature, your neighbor and family values. Learn all your can and find ways to give back. The folks that live in a small town are the community. Always looking for ways to improve and sustain the small Maine town simple living way of life.
It’s spring in Maine as I hunt and peck this blog post made of re-cycled electrons.
Just had a neat total solar eclipse in Houlton Maine andhere’s the video below to watch for a taste of what it was like.
So hosing off the Maine house and other buildings from winter dust, road salt and grime. Opening up Maine woods and lake camps. Ordering seeds for the backyard vegetable garden. Fiddle heading and smelting and yard work. Not necessarily in that order.
Changing up the trail toys. Removing the house banking. Thinking about the year after next’s firewood to be boy scout prepared and make sure it is well seasoned and safe to burn.
Digging out the canoe or kayak for a Maine river race.
Planning hiking trail adventures. When you live in Maine, all the four season outdoors recreation surrounds you. The fun is low or no cost and picnicking is a big deal.
Attractive, Preserved Victorian Style Brick Buildings In Market Square, Houlton Maine. Small Town Maine Living. Very Attractive To Many Moving To Vacationland!
Is the pack carefully and travel light move, relocation to Maine a good idea?
Sure do think so and glad this is where I call home in rural small town Maine. Here to help share the reasons I live in Maine and all the positives. What are your expectations moving to Maine? Where do you live now? Maine is seeing a lot of city dwellers making the transition to rural small town country living.
Small Town Living In Maine. Means Trail Rides With Your Family And Friends. Maine Is Outdoor Recreation, Hitting And Exploring The Woods Trails.
So is moving to Maine a wise decision for you?
Here to answer questions from a local insider native of Maine with lots of experience that wants to help.
So much of the move to Maine relocate or not depends on the timing in decision making. But just as important what are your expectations in Maine combined with the exit interview on where live now or in the past before packing up for the move to Vacationland.
The Great North American Total Solar Eclipse, did you witness Totality? April 8th, 2024 was a pretty big deal in my small hometown of Houlton Maine.
Maine Eclipse Watchers Set Up Cameras, Timers, Telescopes For Total Solar Eclipse In Houlton Maine.
Perfect weather, years of planning, lots of food, fun and family spreading blankets, putting on eclipse glasses. Loads of people young and old from everywhere flocked to Houlton Maine. Traveling to Southern Aroostook County for the total solar eclipse experience.
The screams, laughter, cheering, clapping, singing then silence to take it all in at the moment of Totality.
Temperature 62 Degree, Clear Blue Sky Sunshine On Total Solar Eclipse Day Houlton Maine.
Different than watching a yearly small town fireworks display to celebrate the 4th of July nation’s birthday.
It is high emotion and relief, hope, faith, wonderment, science all rolled into the one Johnny one time hit wonder.
Knowing this kinda spectacle does not happen everyday, not once a year nor is it a CGI Hollywood digital stunt.
Weather temps drop, a solar wind develops, animals and humans alike can be caught off guard if you missed the memo about totality.
Besides the 6,000 locals, how many visitors showed up for the Houlton Maine total solar eclipse?
To me it felt like (adding machine stops, ripping paper sound) … 27,417. Seriously, like the prediction of how many would come, the exact head count of how many actually did will cause wild speculation. Then the media herd will run with the distilled number or a tad little higher in the race to be the most accurate source of news.
From Other Universe Solar Systems, Everyone Came To The Houlton Maine Total Solar Eclipse April 8th, 2024.
Talked with a family from Maryland next to us with two young children. They peered up at the 2017 total solar eclipse. Said they are hooked on totality and just had to travel to Houlton Maine for another town with one.
Another West African man who lives in Berwick Maine now among the many. Sadie’s Bakery took an informal census from their donut sales, claiming 21 states and Switzerland for eclipse festival customers.
All today rubbing sore necks from all over Maine to California, extending across the pond to England. Heck even from what would appear to be other solar systems friendly curious aliens transported down from the Mother Ship to Market Square.
What builds eclipse nervous excitement is so much at stake for tourist dollars and the maximum experience speculation on the Maine weather.
What good is totality and all the logistical eclipse planning if a stubborn cloud cover pattern blind folds it all to make detailed viewing impossible or diminished?
Don’t want to over stock or wished you had prepared better as a retailer.
Only 3 And A Half Minutes To Capture A Total Solar Eclipse Is Stressful. No Second Chance.
Leading up to the total solar eclipse, the Houlton Maine planners, vendors, dining, lodging and event participants just did not know.
All rolling the dice like a Maine farmer in spring hoping for a money making or at least a break-even year ahead.
You work on the devil in the details part of the let’s host a Houlton Maine total solar eclipse event.
Put the Maine small town on the map and sharpen your tourism skill set. Everyone have a safe fun memorable time and see what a neat small Maine town we live in and what we can do?
Southern Maine coastal towns and cities get a lot more tourist marketing experience.
Totality in “The County” put Houlton and Aroostook on the map for more than the standard fifteen minutes of fame and mention.
Houlton Maine, Aroostook County Town Where Totality Happens During The Solar Eclipse.
It was not until last week that national, state and local weather forecast skies brightened for Houlton Maine.
When you see Al Roker pointing at the eclipse path of totality across the nation smiles ear to ear. Touting Maine as is the only eclipse path section standing out as clear blue, it made everyone’s pulse quicken. Big sense of urgency that something very important was looming.
Ready or not, it was here it comes, the last call for the Great North American total solar eclipse 2024 edition.
Lots of folks did make the trip north up I-95 to the Gateway from Maine to the Atlantic Canadian provinces for the total solar eclipse. Houlton Maine is at the crossroads of US RT 1, 2, 2A and I-95.
Big Green Bridge To Maine. Heading Up I-95 To Attend The 3 Day Festival Solar Eclipse In Houlton Maine. You Going?
Maine weather was the biggest concern because it’s always take it or leave it.
Pivot and adapt to work with what you got and Maine weather is never ho hum the same. The spring like clear blue skies and 62 degree temperature conditions April 8th could have been a better stage for total perfect darkness. Other pathway of totality states like Texas did not fare as well, Houlton Maine got a boost of even total solar eclipse watchers
Houlton International Airport KHUL was the busiest it has been since World War Two days of lend lease flys in.
Where local farmers hooked onto planes to “drive not fly” them into neighboring Canada before the US declared war on the Axis. In my Maine real estate job, that airport is a real asset for travelers.
The Houlton Maine Airport KHUL, One Busy Place For Chartered Jets, Private Pilot Aircraft April 8th, 2024.
Eleven big jets, sixty or more smaller private pilot aircraft added to the total solar eclipse frenzy.
A total solar eclipse and perfect weather conditions is a rare bird.
Pretty Silver And Other Color “Birds” Flew Into Houlton International Airport Maine Solar Eclipse Day 2024.
A Maine eclipse is not something you can put off and maybe view next week or the one after that when your schedule is not so overbooked. There is no rain date or second chance for an eclipse. The dress rehearsal date is missing and the next one is a decade away.
Adam Sandler’s jet, Oprah’s private aircraft, even talk Taylor Swift’s sky ride was here according to the coffee drinkers down at the corner store grapevine news outlet.
Not sure if she was in it or not but lots of media buzz about who flew in for the total eclipse of the Sun. Like the Carly Simon song about heading to Nova Scotia. (Now you have the clouds in my coffee, the “You’re So Vain” song playing in your head right?)
The NASA scientists showed up in Houlton Maine and just as predicted, the perfect calculations hit the astronomical power ball.
Houlton Maine Total Solar Eclipse April 8th, 2024. Lots Of Refresher 8th Grade Science Class Refresher Notes To Review And Share With Other Star Gazers.
At 3:32 PM April 8th, 2024 full totality arrived overhead Houlton Maine.
The weather channel, state and national media broadcast networks and World wide news services were in Houlton Maine!
What really helps studying, capturing a total solar eclipse on film and in the memory banks is not just the weather forecast. Lights, when it gets dark in a small Maine town, the photo sensor kicks them on like night time clock work.
Our local Houlton Water Company power utility pulled the plug in “star parks”. So totality was true total darkness. Thank you HWC for the boom, boom out go the lights!
The day after a Houlton Maine total solar eclipse.
Not quite like a Monday Christmas and then return to a business-as-usual normal Tuesday.
You do think about the solar system overhead when you did not before so much. The power of planets and moons and how their interaction affect our daily life suddenly, well eclipse. Everything gets elevated high above the news of the day and line items on your to do list.
My Totality Overhead Snap Shot. Besides Eclipse Photos Of Total Solar Eclipse, Most Time Spent Capturing People’s Reaction Down On The Ground.
How did the Maine total solar eclipse affect you?
Houlton Maine, Everyone Pumped Up Excited About The Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024!
Some watching the wall to wall eclipse news asking what am I missing?
Am I the only one that does really care about the moon butting in front of the sun to darken the Earth?
Others remember eight grade science class trips and the outdoor night time look up at the stars.
Time to test your constellation star pattern eclipse planet orbit astronomy knowledge recall.
But for those lucky enough to be in totality pathway, the solar eclipse news dominates your thoughts on a Tuesday morning. As life settles down, the population trims and small Maine town life resumes.
You can not help but be reminding all of us are pretty darn lucky to live in Houlton Maine, any of the 450 small communities in this rural New England state.
Would not trade it for anything and I hope folks who came to the Houlton eclipse went
Moose In Maine Further Up In Aroostook County Safe From Drunk Hunters. Who Start Shooting Cows, Horses In Lewiston, Further South.
Are you too busy or healthy enough to witness another one and just how far would you travel to experience another one? Are you an eclipse addict or groupie?
Most solar eclipses go out over the Earth’s expanse of water and are not available to enjoy.
It’s like being a gunslinger preparing for the shoot out getting prepared for the time sensitive solar eclipse event.
Had telephoto lens on one camera, a wide angle one on another on a tripod and the cell phone, Go Pro. No one wants to miss a Kodak moment.
Remember “Time goes by”.
What does a total solar eclipse experience do to a person? There is nothing ho hum about it. Listen to the folks around you react to totality. Going in, during, coming out of the light to darkness back to light.
Emotions bubble up in the anticipation excitement, for some fear, others wonderment. It forces clarity, awards wisdom, develops patience and for a moment there is an out of this World connection.
The Sun, Earth, Moon and stars are a tad older than the rest of us.
The celestial orbits and the plantThe eclipse light to darkness is humbling, powerful, a positive experience for 99% of people no matter what nationality, race, religion, politics. It’s science, historic and definitely time
Eclipse Waters From Everywhere! All In Houlton Maine April 8th, 2024.
sensitive.
An eclipse is a bigger than life event… Far out, right on, it blows your mind man.
In a small Maine town, the eclipse is comforting, unifying, a positive experience that leaves you thinking now what.
Pondering what just happened and how does it change anything going forward.
It opens a person up and spurs you on to be a better person and do more for mankind.
Not hokey, and not because of mushrooms or edibles.
Pills?
No thank you. Pass. High on life.
The Maine eclipse happened just as the corner is turned from winter to mud season to spring.
At first knowledge of the date, I think most folks in Maine thought “Wish it was in summer,
Houlton Maine Celebrates Totality In Market Square Fireworks Display!
any other time than April 8th for all the
company we had drop in for the eclipse.
But now thinking the beginning of spring and renewal, planting new seeds and the end of winter / mud season was the perfect time.
(It did not hurt the weather did 180 degree change to sunshine and warm temps either.)
The older you get, the faster the seasons turn.
Maine, The Way Life Should Be. One Big State, Lots Of Special Hidden Areas To Discover.
Knowing many of us won’t see another one is sobering but freeing as we all accept that.
Turning the page and moving on with a little different outlook thanks to Maine eclipse 2024.
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Hope you enjoy the image highlights from the Great North American Houlton Maine total solar eclipse 2024.
Houlton Maine, the oldest town in Aroostook County and a shire town. What is a shire town you wonder?
A shire town is the county seat and Aroostook is the largest of Maine’s sixteen counties. “The County” is bigger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined and the largest east of the Mississippi.
What can I tell you about Houlton Maine, the place?
Quick observations from a local native who calls Houlton Maine his home.
The people in my small Northern Maine town are friendly, helpful, funny and hardworking. Families are tightly knit and the Houlton and the ring of communities around the town pull together during tough times to help their neighbors.
You’re never alone in a small Maine town.
How do I know? Just pop the hood on your stalled car or pick up or snowmobile. Bang. Instantly all kinds of folks rise to the occasion and show up to help you out pronto.
Why? Because they can and someone else did the same for them.
They put themselves in your shoes and figure that could be me. Do something good.
Need a hand? Run out of gas? I have jumper cables for that tired battery or here. Here. Use my cell phone to make a call.
Welcome To Maine. How About A Super Sized Ice Cream Cone Treat?
Folks who live in the greater Houlton area surrounding communities take turns creating some amazing home grown experiences.
It’s not just Houlton Houlton Houlton (chanted like Marcia Marcia Marcia refrain).
Walk through the sheds filled with axes, saws, chains, horse harnesses, peaveys, Lombards, twitch cables.
Learn about river runs and using the waterways to transport the logs to mills downstream.
The entire northwest half of Aroostook, Penobscot Counties is “The Great North Woods” where we hunt, fish, ply the vast trail network on ATV four wheelers and snowmobiles.
Learn about local family farming traditions picking potatoes. Why Aroostook County is called the “Garden of Maine” and about her rich fertile farm field history.
I grew up on a Maine potato farm.
My four kids all picked fall harvest baskets of freshly dug golden farm field spuds.
To fill empty barrels then ticketed, hoisted up and hauled away for potato house winter storage.
The Family Farm Owned And Enjoyed By Me In Maine Author Andrew Mooers.
The work ethic learned heading out early and staying late in the Maine potato farm field is invaluable.
A child managing their own hard earned money is way more careful with impulse control spending it.
All Aboard. Oakfield Maine Railroading Is Big In Southern Aroostook County!
Tour the train station that celebrates the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad rich history hauling potatoes and passengers through out “The County” and beyond.
Stay at one of many woods camp sporting lodges in Southern Aroostook, Northern Penobscot and Washington Counties.
Houlton Maine is at the crossroads of US RT 1, 2, 2A and I-95 that connects to the Trans Canada highway.
Explore the recreation trails any of Maine’s four seasons. Get away from the noisy slow moving crowds and break free.
Run away up to camp in Maine.
Unplug and recharge in front of a crackling wood’s fire under the star filled sky.
Earning Your Spending Money. Managing Your Own Savings! Creates Impulse Control & Life Skills.
The silence is deafening at first. You replace the city sounds of EMS vehicle sirens, jet engines overhead, honking horns.
No garbage truck back up alarms and clanging dumpster bin sounds.
Visit one of many Amish communities surround the Houlton Maine area of Southern Aroostook.
The local farm to table vegetables, home made baked goods taste delicious and you get to know the grower and their families.
Others living off the land peddle their produce at the area local farmer’s markets. Farm to table is a beautiful thing.
Four seasons outdoor natural unspoiled beauty is what surrounds Houlton Maine in Southern Aroostook County.
In all directions, you can hit the rec trails and find total peace and quiet. See wildlife, watch the seasons changes and hear yourself think.
No better place to raise a family, run a small business, retire or vacation than Houlton Maine. Period.
The on the border distinction provides visitors with a two nation vacation experience.
Head over to Hartland New Brunswick to cross the longest covered wooden bridge in the World.
Or down to Nackawic to see the largest axe on the planet. Visit Kings Landing to step back in time in an early Canadian settlement.
The International boundary line border crossing creates lots of jobs. US Border Patrol, Customs, Immigration employment generate money for the local economy.
Country Rides Around Houlton Maine. Do You Have This Kind Of Scenery Where You Live Now?
Those jobs and others attract new families who add so much to Houlton Maine and the surrounding communities.
No better place to raise your family, start a small business or enjoy the blend of work and play in Northern Maine!
Houlton Maine. it hits you as you drive the streets.
These people are friendly, courtesy, let me go at the four way stop sign with a smile.
Everyone nods hello or makes a how you doing comment. No one has a need of a taser.
No one is worried about personal safety.
Living where you want to be makes a major improvement in anyone’s attitude.
Low cost power from not for profit Houlton Water Company keep juice prices attractive.
Local high speed Internet broadband connections second to none in Houlton Maine (Pioneer, Consolidated, other providers).
In small Maine towns get used to low crime (Maine is 4th least crime state in USA) and no traffic.
Looking, Flying Over Houlton Maine, The County’s Oldest Town.
Want to go to Walmart shopping quick and easy or to the local hardware store while puttering?
No time suck getting what you need or even double tracking back for the right item if you mess up. Have to back track for a second try to get it right. To cross off the DIY to do list.
Small towns like Houlton Maine are way easier to maneuver.
All Ages Picked Maine Potatoes In The Farm Field.
Less time spent at traffic lights or in grid lock. Your fellow motorists are way way kinder, gentler and no angry hand gestures.
Welcome to Houlton Maine, the way life should be.
Space, clean surroundings, friendly locals and home town pride volunteering. Find that in Houlton Maine. Your neighbors check in and want to help when you are struggling. You want to give back and pitch in to make the community what it is. Pick an event, that’s your contribution for life and you love it.
Small towns like Houlton Maine are not pay the price of a ticket to attend an event.
It’s working behind the scenes volunteering to put on the event year after year. That’s the way you give back and how you get to know the other members of your small but mighty population.
Houlton Maine had the largest local soap box derby race in the nation five years running.
Check out a soap box race on Derby Hill inspired and engineered like the All America race in Akron Ohio.
Way more satisfying living because you and I are the community where the small Maine towns offer smaller circles.
Everyone tightly connected in towns like Houlton Maine.
There is not the disconnect I hear about from people living in crowded areas. Where just too many people and you find a wall of impersonal and keep your distance. Back off Jack.
So to sum it up, small town Houlton Maine living provides wide open outdoor recreation.
Maine Youth Working The Maine Potato Harvest. Did Not Hurt Their Work Ethic!
Lower cost real estate, less traffic and crime. You get more nature experiences, meet friendlier people, enjoy a sense of community. Most of the recreation is low or now cost and the food and lodging is cheaper.
Every been on a vacation and thought what if I lived her full time and thought maybe I should consider relocating there? Maine is so much of what is missing where 8 out of 10 people live… in an urban setting.
Small Maine towns like Houlton in Aroostook County.
Barrels of money not needed to enjoy them like many expensive tourist trap locations. Simple camping, trail hiking, lake or river canoeing or kayaking.
You’re in Maine, surrounded by unlimited natural beauty whether high atop Mt Katahdin looking out over the landscape.
Or on your boards at the summit of Mars Hill Mountain’s Big Rock, Quoggy Joe or some other small Northern Maine ski area.
Plenty Of Parking At A Maine Ski Area Or A Small School Soccer Game. Welcome To Maine!
Everything is low or no cost which amplifies the enjoyment of all Northern Maine, Southern Aroostook and Houlton Maine.
Constant opening up the wallet wide is taken out of the picture here.
You can let go and get caught up in the vast open space and outdoor natural setting.
The down to Earth people here want to share suggestions on what to do for fun.
Locals are proud of where they live and will answer questions to make sure your visit is worthwhile and memorable.
In small Maine towns like Houlton, everyone is an ambassador.
The circles are smaller, tighter, more intimate and everything moves more efficiently when the communities are really just like large families.
Whether it is a movie in the historic Temple Theatre, stepping up to order a Houlton Farms Dairy Bar ice cream treat.
Too Much Excitement Or Pacing Yourself With A Car Nap While Waiting To Go Water Skiing On A Maine Lake?
Or heading out to NIckerson Lake’s Crescent Park, Birch Point on Pleasant Lake or taking in the Million Dollar View in Weston Maine’s scenic turn out.
Welcome to Houlton Maine.
It’s not like this many other places. Far enough away from population centers to stay small, personable and off peace and quiet. Insulated from over commercialization or exploitation.
Loaded with all natural four season beauty, wildlife, woods, farms, waterways to discover. All kinds of wildlife, natural resources with crystal clean water, fresh air to tap.
In life it is not one size fits all.
And these days folks seem to have strong, louder opinions on what you should or should not be doing in your life.
Houlton Maine, Aroostook County. Home Of 2024 Total Solar Eclipse.
But maybe too small is just right because too big is impersonal and expensive.
In my job, I hear it a lot.”I want to run away from too many people, HOA’s and heavy layers of regulations and code enforcement”.
Or “I’m in Florida, Arizona Texas and burning up”. And lastly, “it’s too expensive where I live now and can not afford to retire here”.
If housing is too expensive where you live now, consider small town Houlton Maine real estate prices and selection.
When crime is high, traffic is heavy, small town Maine communities are such a contrast.
If where you live now people don’t smile, avoid making eye contact and keep to themselves, that’s not the feeling of community you get vacationing or living in small town Houlton Maine.
Houlton Maine Loaded With Grand Older Well Preserved Victorian Houses.
Walking to everywhere easily happens in small town Houlton Maine.
Leave your car or SUV or pick up parked with the keys in the vehicle.
Walk downtown, to the movies, to the tennis courts, baseball field, basketball court, along the Riverfront Park trail.
Get out, hoof it and see how folks smile and are friendly.We use our open porches and wave, say hello.
Getting Out Of The Maine Real Estate Office, Not Pinned To The Wall By A Desk.
Simple living, easier day to day interactions with local folks who want to help.
Ask for help.
What kind of experience are you looking for?
This blog post simply attempts to describe what greater Houlton Maine is like.
It’s up to you to feel whether a visit here is worth the time and expense to come sample this special corner of Maine.
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