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  • WARNING: Over Loaded Maine Blog Information Guide Post Ahead.

    Maine, Point That Compass North.
    Get Your Bearings Due North East, To Maine

    Maine, so much to love, so much to share in a blog post about the state.

    If you had never been to Maine, had not bumped in to many people that had either. That would be a lot of empty shelves in the mental library on the topic Maine. This blog post is to start filling those shelves, to build your knowledge base.

    For starters, Maine climate, topography, weather. One big, varied state, so the Maine outdoor recreational options are vast, varied. Maine is divided in to eight tourism, camping regions.

    Maine welcomes you whether you are after some of the 3500 miles of rock bound coastal islands, to see bobbing lobster, sailing boats or cruise ships.

    Or to hike up Baxter State Park’s Mt Katahdin. Or to take a dip, wet your line, float your boat to sample a few of our 6000 beautiful lakes, rivers, streams and ponds. But remember, if you are coming to Maine, better learn how to wave, be friendly. Mainers are down to earth, hardworking, genuine, fiercely family, church and community centered. Maine people truely have their heads screwed on straight. Respect the natural beauty that Vacationland is blessed with all four seasons.

    The beauty of Maine, photos play out like face cards when you are holding the right hand. This Maine farmer collecting antique farm tractor video shows you what drives us, how we are built.

    And the fun in Maine is outdoors, any season.

    Winter not a time to hibernate or park it on a couch, stay inside and waste any of it. Maine down hill, cross country skiing and snowmobiling are just a few winter recreation options.

    Airports in Maine list. How ever you get here, from air, land, the sea, wandering in to the powerful State Of Maine website means you’ll come out way way more knowledgeable. Your idea of fun may be chasing a Maine golf course white ball at 130 link options. Or Maine snowsledding, maybe Maine skiing, or Maine whitewater boat rafting with a noisy load of wet family, friends.

    Or if you settle down, buy a Maine farm land, you will want to tap in to the knowledge base at the MOFGA group. If hunting and fishing in Maine is the attraction, you won’t be disappointed either. Can’t go wrong hitting one of many Maine state fairs to really meet, talk with the people, to sample the many region’s local flavor, the infectious community spirit.

    Did you know Maine has sixteen counties, seven million acres of forest and is 91% wooded?

    Other Maine state statistics, information highlights. Did you realize Eastport Maine’s West Quoddy Head Lighthouse is the first place in the US to get splashed, hit with the nation’s morning sun? There are over 60 Maine lighthouses.

    Did you know Maine’s Allagash Wilderness Waterway is 92 miles long? That you can take a open carriage horse ride around Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor Maine, the only National park in New England? Did you know approximately 40 million pounds of Maine lobsters (nearly 90 percent) supply the nation? Or that Aroostook County, the state’s largest is bigger than the combined size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined?

    Told you, warned you Me In Maine blog reader, follower that this was an oversized, big blog post jammed packed with information about Vacationland land. Thanks for stopping in!

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Tough Love Santa, Calls Spade A Spade In Maine Visit.

    Think of your experience with Santa Claus over the years. You’ve had some pretty good toy loads, presents.

    Then other years where you fell down miserably, messed up. But Christmas happened just the same, right on time, schedule. I’ve witnessed Santa’s I’ve met in person with various mood swings.

    Usually jovial, looking like his blood pressure was way too high but a jolly sort really. Patient with the kids, a good listener, not afraid to give you a hug. But this year, on a surprise visit to Houlton Maine, Santa surprised me. He called a couple of kids out with the long and narrow of it. Santa let a kid know. Plain and simple. Hitting him with bold face truth that his annual review records showed that junior had been pretty rotten this year.

    Not reminding the kid that he needs to try harder next year. Not tip toeing around the question of which book the kid’s name appeared in. Leaving no doubt that junior’s name was in the “not so nice”, actually down right “naughty” edition of the latest big red leather bound in his North Pole study.

    Jimmy, roll the Santa Claus being a little short and sweet, curt video. Show the exchange with one Houlton Maine pair of kids thinking dancing sugar plums, lots of presents that may not happen this Christmas.

    Santa’s Visit To Houlton Maine During Thanksgiving Rotary Auction Video

    You better look out, better not pout, Santa Claus is coming to town. Hope he goes easy on the roof shingles and that the reindeer don’t start their clowning around, games on your house top like they did last Christmas. Happy Holidays from Maine.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Widgets, I Use Them To Keep Maine Media Streams Straight.

    Widgets are neat on line containers that a Maine blog author can keep the collection of posts.

    To plant the code to the widget on other media sites that the blogger, or in my case Maine real estate broker maintains, posts to and coordinates.

    Out of the corner of your eye, the media widget can carefully, slowly catch the attention of the Vacationland website follower who may decide to explore your latest Maine blog post. Like a restaurant, something on the menu can grab your interest. Gain your attention, make a bell go off in your head because it looks good, tasty. Worth exploring, checking out. “I’ll try it with my black coffee, a side of Maine potato home fries, grilled with onions, green peppers, mushrooms please.” As you and the kids hand back the menus to the waitress that took the order and is now high tailing it to the kitchen.

    Feel free to use the code for the MeInMaine blog widget on any work you do as a blogger, website host, or to compliment your mediastream.

    When you have lots of coordinated on line blogging platforms for different purposes, goals, these various widgets can help keep the media stream cords tangle free, conditioned to work properly.

    Try the scroll, pull it down to view other earlier Me In Maine blog posts.

    Another Widget For Social Media Platforms Like You Tube, Active Rain, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr Posts Too Helps Internet Media Stream Traffic Control.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • The MeInMaine Blogger Just One Of Many Fine ME Posts To Follow.

    When you are in your right place, love where you live in the upper right hand corner of the country in a rural state like Maine, you don’t keep it a secret.

    Blogging about the Maine lifestyle, approach to living day to day is easy and necessary. In a world of helter skelter, chasing the dollar and maybe some of the wrong “carrots”, what really matters needs airing. To promote a simpler way of life that is healthier, natural, well… Maine

    Maine, Outdoor Natural, Simple Video, Visit ME Minute Video

    The blinders come on when you actually live in Maine. Blog about the local community events, spirit and deep sense of family, outdoors, hard work and what makes Maine, the Pine Tree State really shine. As you try to whittle out the definition of Maine, what the experience, adventure all boils down to, you can forget then suddenly realize it is not like this many other places.

    So like sitting down to the piano, using just one finger to blog post about Maine.

    Images, just photos of Maine can begin to paint the landscape on a blank, white mental canvas if you have never been to sample parts of ME. Then you bring in the video of outdoor natural Maine to breath life in to the pictures. Showing friendly folks, volunteering to put on local Maine events all over Vacationland. Videos of what we do for fun in Maine are simple, yet powerful if what the viewer sees is painfully lacking in their urban, city setting now.

    We remind readers of the MeInMaine blog posts that folks here are a little crusty, a tad outspoken but fiercely home town proud, community minded.

    We suggest learning how to wave, smile, to be friendlier when you cross over the Maine state line. Also that summer is not our only worthwhile season, that in winter Mainer’s are not popsicles. Maine is four seasons. Maybe someone in the audience did not get the memo about Maine’s weather, climate, topography. A Maine winter is not for hibernating, shivering or staying on a couch, killing time surfing television channels.

    The MeInMaine blog author avoids Bangor Daily News editorials that can be toxic, sharp tongued, demeaning and just serve to tear down one really great state. Maybe the punching, poking is somehow designed to sell more copies of the Maine newspaper. But the reader is left with a sense of what is the state doing wrong now with a steady pick, pick, pick flow of negative venom.

    Maine blogs I follow, enjoy include My Corner of Maine, the Maine.info blog post collection, Maine Networked blog posts, and Maine Today blog posts.

    Thank you for follow our MeInMaine blog posts.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • The Childhoods Of Four Maine Boys Contained In An Antique Open Front Writing Desk.

    Collecting Memorable Events In A Family, Storing Them In A Writing Desk
    Every Mom, Lady In Her 80’s It Seems Has A Writing Desk For Family History

    If you still have both your parents, enjoy them but my Maine Mom and Dad are now in my memory and heart only.

    I miss them being here on Earth. But they both prepared the four boys in their family for the acceptance of death as a part of life. I still feel their presence, the life lessons and values they both worked hard to instill in their boys.

    When you live geographically close to your parents, and your kids, their grandchildren see them nearly daily, their absence hits deeper.

    Their passing is noticed more than when once, twice if you are lucky the same parents get together with their grown kids now moved many states away. I think that is the way it goes for many. Because of more local involvement in your day to day life as the family grows older together.

    Sharing Maine holidays that come and go. School plays, sports games and graduation to the next life level happens with a blur. Right on schedule. The parents are around for it all, you do lots together. Whether attending a Maine church supper where the food is always like the best world class five star dining establishment. Being there with them as parts wear out, the other end of age plays out. Life’s tail end involving flights of stairs up and down during brief stays at a local Maine hospital.

    But no nursing homes, no prolong life ending illnesses or conditions for either for which the four boys are very grateful.

    And so much rich experiences, adventures really that the pair took, exposed their family to together. With love, care and attention. It’s not their death that glorifies or history that makes them bigger than life. It’s simple love, kindness, care and attention as their kids, grandchildren were taught practical life lessons.

    Healthy ways to look at situations we find ourselves in. How it is not about just us. But to always consider, factor in others. The greater good of many and not just ourselves to take care of, please. To have a life with purpose, to contribute to your local community for the sheer joy of helping out, pitching in. But most importantly, how to be happy, content, grateful.

    No one likes a lazy whiner.

    Hanging around the water cooler attitudes, complaining when you have work to do. To get yourself out of the mud you put yourself in. Responsibility for your role in difficult situations. Relationships that are delicate and that family is everything drilled in to us as a given. Not a choice. It all meant respect for others, their opinions. And extreme care to maintain delicate family relationships so damage was avoided, to side step the need for repair process altogether.

    In settling the last to go, Mom’s estate, nothing hit me harder, deeper of her sense of family then sorting through what lay in her antique, open front writing desk.

    Every woman now in her 80’s seems to own one.

    In my travels as a Maine real estate broker, I see them in every living room or den. Carbon copy solid pieces of furniture. And inside are the contents of the family journey. Tucked away in special pull out compartments for safe keeping.

    Report cards of myself, my brothers and all the rest of the memorabilia of growing up appear as the desk lid is opened, lowered. Newspaper clippings yellowing but scissored out because one of us was mentioned, or the center of the local story. Loose green stamps that were waiting, collected for the next book used to help buy sporting goods, camping gear. Awards, certificates, a Bible, yarn for mittens and scarves, all safely stored inside that writing desk that had a lock. But never was.

    Like a family time capsule, recording we all really lived here on Earth, raised on a Maine potato farm where the entire family worked. Plenty of Maine land with lots of trailer trucks out back behind the barn to haul the spuds to market. Black and white pictures capturing it all. Carefully labeled on the back to pass on who this is and where it was taken. For the next generation. Merry Christmas Mom, Dad, family and friends.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Give Experiences In Maine, Gifts That Make Lasting Memories.

    Noise Of Water, Adrenalin Pumping As You White Water Raft On A Maine River.
    We’re Going In, Gonna Get Wet.

    Local, close to home activities in Maine are plentiful when you live in a state known as “Vacationland”.

    This Christmas bag the ugly tie, another scented candle and go for outdoor experiences in Maine. Like a open horse carriage ride around Acadia National Park. Enjoy a Maine day admiring ocean views, granite stone bridges and miles of country riding the roads around Acadia in the Mt Desert – Bar Harbor ME area.

    Or plan a complete trip to Baxter State Park for some hiking little hills or Mt Kathadin with the family.

    Camp out, get the reservations with most of your questions answered at the Baxter State Park Authority website. Baxter’s Mount Katahdin is Maine’s highest mountain. Whether to get a cabin at Daicey and Kidney Ponds or to reserve a bunk house for cost savings depends on the number in your party. Get the 28 page planning book for your trip to Baxter Park. It’s accessible on line at the Baxter Park website link above.

    Whitewater rafting in Maine on the Dead, Kennebec, Penobscot Rivers is another outdoor never forget vacation experience. Leave the trip details in a map to Maine you put under the Christmas tree of those you love, would like to take a little fast paced boat raft ride with. Watch a video on a Maine whitewater rafting adventure and see yourself in the excited, paddling for all you’re worth boat.

    Or plan your own special adventure on one of Maine’s 2500 lakes, ponds. The biggest top three Maine lakes are Moosehead, Sebago, Grand Lakes. Campsite rentals for your fifth wheel camper or tent are available along with cabins for the largest party of vacationers. Being next to a Maine lake. With an open fire to sit, talk around nights. To plan your next day. It’s just the present you should be putting under all those Christmas trees needing a never fade memory gift this holiday season. Give an outdoor, any season Maine experience present this Christmas.

    Maine, big state, friendly people, more wildlife than people.

    Search the Maine MLS listings portal of real estate listings to own your own piece of ME.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com