It’s said lobstermen and lobsterwomen are born, not made. For starters, Maine is lucky to have a coastline, to be on the Atlantic Ocean. All those ragged, rocky juts of Maine land out into the
Maine Picnics Go Hand In Hand With Lobster Rolls. Potato And Pasta Salad. Corn On The Cob.
briny, misty water take a life time to discover as a tourist. The quaint Maine harbor towns and fishing villages are a big part of the Vacationland attraction.
This blog post about lobstering in Maine.
Like the agriculture farming and forest timber lifestyles, lobstering or any fishing coastal endeavor takes a lot of discipline. The stakes are high. Long hours too that start early, extend late. There is Maine weather delivered up good, bad and worse.
Fishing in Maine is like farming the waters off the coast using boats, buoys and lobster traps not field tractors and implements.
The Maine lobster market prices up and downs means you have to manage your money well. Your overhead continues no matter how many Maine lobsters crawl into the hauled up watery traps. Like many Maine industries, going bigger to monetize production is the trend. But this blog post on lobstering in Maine focuses on the smaller, family fishing operations.
Videos on lobstering in Maine are the easiest way to deliver the goods.
The promise of the blog post title uses your eyes and ears today. Like lazy man’s lobster where everything is steamed, opened up, cracked and buttered. Need a bib? You better put on a bib. Squirts happen around the lobster feed setting.(more…)
These are the best of times if you accept, adjust, adapt, and creatively do the best you can with a positive spirit. When you grow up in rural Maine, being resourceful and collectively as a community tackling change happens. If this is your first setback, life is harder. These can be the good old days twenty years from now. Never discount that the going could get tougher before it improves or is predictable right?
Is life easy or hard or meh?
If you were taught to look for bumps in the road, to expect them, not be surprised. Being eagle eyed and aware. Learning how to make the most of events. If you can do that, you will be better off than most. An optimistic approach to life gives you and others around you hope, helps to keep the faith and to expect change. You stay optimistic when you daily remind yourself, when you give thanks and are grateful for others in your life. You become way way more aware of what is happening around you in nature. The wildlife get noticed and have a daily roll in your entertainment and fulfillment in Maine.
Otters Play, Get Social At 5AM On A Maine Lake Video.
When you are spoiled and don’t worry about others around you, you wear a thick life darkening blindfold.
You are not an asset to your small Maine town. We are all in this together is how the tides life up the small Maine community. Having faith and channeling physical and mental energies into efforts that will help yourself and others is the best course of action.
Would you be better off living somewhere else means some areas will suffer hardships, others get through the adjustment piece of cake.
COVID19 can make a person have a serious heart to heart with the guy or gal in the mirror. Change is part of life. Self inflicted change makes it easier to roll with the punches and accept adjustment. Surprises get swallowed easier when you expect them. If you don’t think the way life is unfolding should be happening to you, you forget and no longer care that others are in the same boat. Or that may have it much worse than you.
Heading To Church On A Maine Country Road. Amish Weight Distribution Off Or There’s A Broken Leaf Spring.
Many preach we all need to strive for a simpler life.
But the bigger question is why do we complicate and clutter it? Is something missing in your life? Do you feel fulfilled or no matter how good things are rolling, you have a capacity to find fault? To wish for more instead of being grateful for how lucky you are with what you already have. Do you want to be happy? Is full of joy a textbook definition but not in your opinion a real world expectation? Based on what you were taught by others close to you growing up around you, have you seen the power of just what a positive attitude can accomplish?
The COVID19’s coronavirus pandemic like any setback should make you and I take inventory of what I need to do for more than mere survival.
Wanting to to more than just get by but to help your community is something we all strive to do in small Maine communities. Maybe life is a little harder and we are a tad more self reliant rather than expecting others to help us carry the load. But that strain and daily stress is what keeps you in the real World game when real change comes along.
What if I lost my job, if health failed, a fire wiped everything out?
Taking precautions to minimize the chances of a total wipe out is part of the insurance. But living below your means so you have a little nest egg to carry you through should be part of the gig. Not expecting someone, anyone else or a government institution to swoop in and fix the problem helps empower you. To be more in charge of your destiny and quality of life.
I feel badly for folks jammed in a city setting that don’t live in Maine.
It must be hard watching life around you tighten up and lots of what you loved about where you live dry up and stall. But when social distancing is easier because we are populated 11 to a mile,
See The Circle Of Ice? Maine Winters Produce Lots Of It For Ice Fishing.
when what we do for fun is not heavily dollar based, life in rural Maine makes for a better back drop. Living simpler is easier when you are just grateful to have shelter, to live where you enjoy amazing sunrises, spectacular sunsets and it is lower cost to hang your hat in rural Maine.
COVID19 forces a person to seriously examine where I live and why.
Many are eyeballing Maine as the next stop. What you need out of life changes with or without a coronavirus or an edgy country sharply divided right down the middle. Where do I want to live and what can I do to improve my surroundings for me, my family, for others in the community? I believe you can do so much good in a small Maine community and the reward is great.
Many are making the transition to Maine for what we don’t have.
Traffic, crime, insincerity, pollution. For the long list of what we do that is not longer available in the city landscape or never was. Space, trails, hideaways below radar. When you see others step up to do more and a possess a strong consistent concern for others around you.
Pitching in and working collectively. That is one beautiful experience because no one person could pull it off without the combined community segments firing on all the cylinders behind the drive to do the right thing. Everyone on the same page creates no sour notes and their more harmonious major not minor chords.
How are you making out?
How’s life treating you? Figure you have it better than most? Is it like last call and the bright lights suddenly came on. The proprietor putting turned over chairs up on tables and making hand motions to propel you to the parking lot door? Muttering more than once “Last call”. Then “We don’t care where you go but you can not stay here”.
Maine has four seasons and all are enjoyed, all spend outdoors. Living in Maine, there is a sadness as one season passes but quickly we embrace the next. As you get older, time flies and life becomes shorter. The seasons too brisk and it is up to us to make time to fill each of them with outdoor traditions. Our pastimes in Maine are 90% outdoors where wildlife, natural resources are ready to enjoy without crowds of people to interfere with the experience. Looking for Maine, the way life should be?
Time to float or fly?
Where would you go if you did not live where you do now? Have you been thinking Maine makes sense for a part time, full time investment?
The thick sheet covering the many lakes in Maine measures many inches deep. So thick it allows the weight of vehicles to drive on it. Creates the ice fishing, pond hockey skating, cross country skiing and snow shoeing outdoor fun opportunity. Plus winter ice on a Maine lake means snowmobile trails appear and disappear. All at the whim of Mother Nature and Jack Frost working as a team for winter exercise and recreational pastimes.
Peaceful, Quiet, Solitude On A Maine Lake. As Winter Ends, Spring Arrives During Ice Out!
Ice out on a Maine lake.
Before the back drop changes, lots goes on behind the scenes. Winter tourism in Maine depends on snow and ice spinning the color wheel. For the transformation of Vacationland to winter white that means green for the small local community business economy. The fish and game people even track ice out on Maine lakes and keep records from past years of when the last shard is gone. And spring boating fishing fun can again happen.
Ice out boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen.
No more Jiffy ice auger needed to can open the frozen Maine lake. Riddling it with the holes for drop of the fishing line to flirt with bait and lures. With lots of patience and many rounds pegging for points on the cribbage board. To hopefully catch lake trout, land lock salmon, whatever fish species you love most for catch and release fun. Or to he keepers to clean and cook at home after you pack it up and trudge off the floating sheet of ice outdoor platform. The fish dinner served up hot, seasoned and tasty slid out of the hot frying pan to hop up and out leap on to a waiting raised plate.
River Outlet To Maine Lake. During Ice Out Melting From Maine Lakes, Those Rivers Swell From All The Ice Out Run Off.
The ice over and out of a Maine lake is a tug of war.
Going from open to frozen then thaw until the real deal happens. The ice out is a matter of local tradition and is it when the main lake body is open or eighty percent clear? Is ice out when there is none in just your cove tunnel vision? Is ice out an anxious proclamation whether it is or not because winter hung around too long? (more…)
Maine blog posts don’t need a sea of words to relay worthwhile information.
In fact, images of Maine, videos of local Maine events can do the heavy lifting. Both easily relay what is it like living in Vacationland. Here are some images of Maine that I think do a pretty good job relaying the day to day experience. To transport you to Maine and to get a small taste of what is it like living here full time. Maine four season living offers lots of eye candy to share if you carry a camera and leave the safety off to bag and tag the imagery.
Farmer To Farmer MOFGA Meeting. Young And Old Farmers Compare Notes. Maine Organic Agriculture Is Big!Heading To Church. Amish Mass Transit In Maine. Not Quite Bumper To Bumper Traffic Drive Time.Clear Crisp Air. Moon Lighting Up A Small Maine Town.Summer Concerts, Small ME Town Outdoor Music Events Always Well Attended By All Ages Who Hum, Sing, Toe Tap.Float Your Boat, Living The Life In Maine. Water, The Kind On The Maine Coast. Lakes, Ponds, River Variety.Dressed In White Snow Caps. Mt Katahdin At A Different Angle And Season Always Impresses.Hang On, Get Sprayed, Rushing Through Maine’s Penobscot River Rapids.Maine Is Vast. The Woods, Water, People Are Real. Mainers Are Outdoors Year Round. Just Dress For The Season.Young Holstein Dairy Calf Says Hello From Maine Farmstead. Black, White, Pink And Brand New.Something Unique From Maine. Local Artists And Crafts People Peddle Home Made Wares At Maine Fairs.Picture Perfect Weather For A Small Maine Town 4th Of July Parade!Waiting For Spring. The Maine Farm Pony Can Sense Spring Is Approaching.Portland Head Lighthouse. She’s Actually In Cape Elizabeth Not Portland Maine. Maine Has Over 60 Lighthouses!
And videos on living in Maine. Show and tell, sample the local small town flavor. Visit with locals, be at Maine small town events.
Don’t those work best for the show and tell of the flavor of living in Maine? Roll the Maine video.
Better throw in a few Maine community videos into the media mix while we are building the newest blog post entry today.
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Maine is small town living, a handful of cities.
She is one big and beautiful sixteen counties to explore and return to through out your lifetime. Maine is lots more than the four color tourist vacation brochures show case.
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