When you live in Maine, the “music” in the background is a babbling brook, lake or surging ocean lapping at the shore.
Or a roaring river picking up steam and widening from melting winter snows.
The snake like wet ribbon swelling the banks. Deepening and raising the water level. To create extra all natural, pure magic waterworks to enhance the outdoor experience.
To make the same place feel different because a season changed since the last visit.
Four times is a charm to shake up the variation as the pages of the calendar get ripped off. Drift to the floor.
The music we listen to can be bluegrass, American folk, or center stage old rockers visiting Maine on a regular basis. But sometimes words get in the way.
Techno can cure that with more tribal beat, less verbage if any salt and peppered in the stanzas of the musical score.
Some of the current tunes spun to be in the background.
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The rules of lake living in Maine are short and sweet.
Keep it simple. Lots of outdoor cooking. Family, friends, all the food home made and scrumptious. The living room is outdoors. The open deck up back waiting. Circle of rocks down front where nightly fires happen are both popular places.
Something To Eat And Being Social. Not All Snapping Turtles Live Up To Their Label.
So is getting in, out, over the water. To cool off. Fish for supper. To water ski or tube.
Kayaking slowly with the overhand paddle dip side to side. Itching to crack the throttle of something motorized.
Everyone does Maine lake living with their own custom built variation.
To reflect on how your life is going so far. Sunrises, sunsets and the in between on a Maine lake.
How would you fill that space of time?
Perspective happens in the sharper focus of being able to spend some time lake living in Maine.
The length of the stay is not the end all either. A weekend, an entire season or whatever fraction of time you can carve out to run away to be on a Maine lake. It’s all good.
Was at a camp on Flying Pond in Mt Vernon/Vienna Maine this past weekend. For a family reunion with perfect weather dialed in. Lots of new folks to meet of all ages, walks of life. Ate too much, laughed a lot, collected some photo glimpses to share of what I already knew.
Bikers Stop To Jaw At The Local Center Of Towns In Maine Small Towns.
Maine lake living is therapeutic.
Cures what ails you. Or refreshes the soul as you kick back, unplug, recharge.
Because water, the view, the lake loons, wildlife and outdoor cooking add to the take away.
The setting wearing shorts, flip flops and wild colored tourist shirts, crazy hats with fishing lures in them set the tone. Of anything goes.
Touch Down On A Maine Lake.
Let your hair down with a few barley pops, glassed of high test grape juice.
Laugh hard.
Tell tall tales.
Add and embellish a tad to the colorful expressions and recollections to keep them sharp, vivid.
Everyone takes a turn, has a role in the audience at a Maine lake camp or home.
And adds their two cents in making, preserving the traditions. Pass them on. It takes all ages, like a church to all together create the sense of family, community.
Stretch Your Neck Out, Consider Getting Your Own Maine Waterfront Property.
Everyone roots for all the family members in the tribe.
With traces of the same DNA coursing through their veins.
Through the ups and down. The twists sideways that you don’t experience alone. Because with family everyone is in the ride in the connection.
Weddings, funerals, divorces, new births. Job promotions, relocations, retirements. New hairdos, medical illnesses. All that discussed at the Maine lake get together comparing notes. Catching up.
Maine lake living, long for some? I know a Maine REALTOR who can help in the property search hunt. That has more than an inkling. On what you are after.
Looking for some of that to enrich your life?Is something missing or in too short supply? Are we having any fun yet?
The place I was at on Flying Pond was bought by family members back in the 1970’s. A simple cedar shingle cape structure built slowly as money allowed in 1978.
With a float plane parked out front.
Lillie the five year old beagle the only security system.
And pretty much ready to chase who ever picks up, throws the green tennis ball. To retrieve panting for the let’s do it again. This is fun, exercise, for both of us.
Used as a camping, boat launch only site before the camp appeared. Lots of hammers involved in the creation process that pounded slowly, deliberately,
Playing With The Beagle, Chuck And Return Beagle Style.
frugally.
Maine lake real estate is a big cookie jar. The morsels are all sizes, prices, locations.
But the name of the game is get in the game.
Get off the sidelines and stop just limping along renting someone else’s paradise.
We both know what you really want to do. Need a little nudge, coaxing?
What are you waiting for in the dip your toe? Last one in, well. You know how the the ditty ends.
Maine is not a state known for a giant population.
See The Light, Maine Is The Source.
More wildlife than people in the wide open, unspoiled spaces and places we traipse.
Chasing, then stretching the dollar is one reason the numbers are low.
Not everyone will and some argue it is more survival than living in Maine.
But hunger improves the taste.
Increases the appreciation for what you do have that was worked hard to obtain. And demands respect, care in preserving it.
Because marching out to replace it is not done easily when the bank account is only so fat.
Not so roly poly.
And major chunks of it are already earmarked for this, this and oh yeah, that too. There is a cost to just existing, breathing and keeping the food and water flowing no matter where you are.
But if a depression, stock market crash happened, I sure would rather be in Maine than a concrete jungle.
We would make a game out of the rise to the occasion. To live simpler, more like pioneers and camping out appreciating just the basics.
Maine. Sit A Spell. See What Happens One By One To Your Senses.
Some will argue Maine IS a great place to live.
If you can make a living.
Or have an income that follows you here into Maine retirement.Or are sampling it, hitting the highlights on vacations whenever possible.
Despite being waited on hand and foot with hired help to try to improve their life.
All the latest and greatest stuff and round the clock pampered adoration attention is medication for the symptom.
Not the cure.
Because it is not real, not all about others. Do the 180 degrees in thinking, your life outlook. Replace thinking you deserve pampered to instead be challenged. Not get comfortable and to grow, expand, become way way more.
What’s Cooking Inside, Outside When You Live In Maine? Plenty!
I think in the final analysis we get more for less in Maine.
And have more enriched lives because greater awareness happens. Less clutter, 4th lowest crime, cheap real estate where you don’t need a mortgage.
Low cost insurance for vehicles that don’t get stolen. More about meat and potatoes essentials in Maine. And that is more than good enough. Digging deep to be more happens inside a Maine person.
Live here long enough and you get it in what is important. Relationships, the connection is stronger in small rural Maine living for sure.
We need each other and depend on the back and forth to do more than survive.
In small Maine towns, folks look out for each other. Not ignore or snub or play the smug and aloof character.
Each and everyone one of us in a small Maine town has a vital role.
Children, Our Greatest Entertainment, Investment In Maine Small Town Living.
Not out to impress but to pitch in. What can I do to help?
Would be missed if plucked out of the social fabric.
Our large funerals pay homage to the importance every member of a small Maine community has in the burg or village or plantation. The hole they leave when they depart the Earth.
No one is too busy or caught up chasing their tail to miss the essentials in healthy living in Maine.
We count our blessings morning, noon and night. And we enjoy the four seasons of Maine year round. Not just a long weekend a year to sample Maine’s all natural, pure beauty and simplicity.
In Maine the simple living approach of our daily thinking means one particular question gets asked inside your head. A lot. The one about “do I need it or just want it?” We develop the two flavor choices if we don’t get raised with it ingrained deeply as a youngsters along the way to adulthood.
Traveling is fun and enlightening outside Maine but instate it can take a lifetime to discover the local turf.
Next weekend have a family reunion to attend in Flying Pond and know zip about that area of Maine.
For starters, I am very familiar with local recreational waterfront options like Drews Lake that got plied, surveyed with a kayak yesterday. But Hhmmmm.
Year Round, Maine Lakes, Ponds Get Enjoyed. Used Like The Outdoor Living Room.
Where, how to get there and what is Flying Pond all about?
For starters, check with the state about the fish, the waterfront body itself.
Vienna and Mount Vernon Maine in Kennebec County covers the where is Flying Pond. It is 403 acres large. 8.7 miles long, 27′ feet average depth and 80′ deep maximum.
You have to consider like lots of the lake study done way back in the 1940’s that not all the numbers can be taken as gospel though.
Maine has a lot of lakes. Somewhere I read about 2200 in number for how many Maine lakes.
And don’t even think about how many islands to visit. (Hint: 3166 islands in Maine.) Without splitting hairs on are we talking coastal or inland islands in Maine?
And what is the plain jane, garden variety difference… if something is labeled a Maine lake not a pond?
Or the other way around. Usually Maine lakes have different layers of temperatures and ponds have one consistent one. But the inlet, outlet of a lake or a pondis what makes the major difference.
Port Clyde Maine’s Marshall Point Lighthouse. Pretty Any Seasons. No Tourists In Winter Under Cobalt Blue Skies. Sample Fresh Air, Snow And Sunshine.
Well, maneuvers with the mouse says plan to sit back and relax.
Cruising at about 24 inches off the hot top and tick away 3 hours, 18 minutes. Log give or take 188 miles from “The County”, the “Shiretown” of Houlton in Aroostook.
Will report back about a new area of Maine to share which is what this blog posting series of hunt and pecks is all about right?
Lighthouses in Maine have taken the reins in some of the exploration of Vacationland in the past.
And as that personal collection of state landmarks grows, I remember some inland lighthouses in Maine. A little fuzzy but remembering someday to capture another one or two that were not your traditional along the coast of Maine lighthouses.
Some Maine Lighthouses On Rivers, Inlets, Not Parked Out On A Sea Island Or Craggy Shore Line.
Because the location of Flying Pond is in Kennebec County, maybe lighthouses along the river of the same name might be handy enough.
To snap snap of the shutter to cut and capture. To be fodder for future editions of the blog post stream.
Busy plotting how far and if a little course deviation coming or going to Flying Pond might be possible. To capture addition imagery to share online in this forum.
How did they live years ago without power? Quite nicely.
No hair dryer for Suzie’s wet hair. Or straightener, crimper to plug in to alter what sits on her head.
Clothes hung out instead of tumble dried. Fresh air not a sheet of fabric softener applied in a little longer process on days that are still. Or no time at all when a stiff breeze removes the moisture while flapping whatever is secured to the line with wooden clothespins.
Living off grid is independent.
Maine Garden Bounty, Creating Wealth From The Fertile Soil, Farm Dirt.
Making your own energy beyond just heating with wood. We run into them, alternative energy homes in our day job as a Maine real estate broker.
And like the organic farmers, back to the land homesteaders, the approach to living is kept rock steady clean, simple, enriching.
Reducing it down to remove the clutter. And the waste, added expense created to fuel the unnecessary. That only serves to distract, detract from that simple living.
That approach to Maine’s day to day existence here requires a constant vigil. To be centered and have purpose.
Round the clock effort reminders needed to never loose track of that less is more in Maine.
Maine, All Four Seasons We Spend Most Of Our Time Outside. It’s All Natural, Simpler Living.
And to always be on the look out for ways to steady as she goes. Not get caught up in anything that takes the eyes off that approach to living simple in Maine.
To keep it all natural, unfiltered and refreshingly lasting to endure. Not ever store bought and artificial, short lived.
Creature comforts, are those enough for you to be content? You have a full belly, shelter that is warm and clean. Family that surrounds you and health of any of them is not a concern. Is that all you require or is something nagging, missing from that simple approach?
Maybe highly effective marketing is causing the doubt, the nervous in the service feeling that something is missing.
You need this, should have that, deserve to let the World know you are one of a kind special. The only one in your breed or species and hail to Dorothy to be revered. Held in high regard.
Not everyone can handle simple living. Partly because life has been nothing based on that up to this point. Or that to embrace that angle on living would be weak, depriving you are all of life’s goodies. the bounty of wealth that is out there for the taking.
Outdoor Four Seasons Recreation, Our Living Room Is Outside In Maine. Fresh Air, Wide Open Space, Wildlife.. Reasons We Live In Maine.
When you living in Maine, it is always an effort to reduce, reuse, recycle and living below your means to avoid debt.
Or worry about making the ends meet. Survival skills are honed to a sharp point. But awareness and being keen on what matters happens inside a person with that walk in life in Maine.
Is that the take away at the beginning and end of the day where you hang your hat on planet Earth now?
Maine, there is another simple approach to living all natural, unplugged in Vacationland.
