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Ultralight In Maine, No, Not Talking A Skinnier You, ME.

Ever been for a ultra light air plane ride? You might think no one is getting me up in a small aluminum tubular toy airplane with some canvas stitched on the wings and powered by a Rotax air cooled snowsled engine.

But you calm down a little when you learn the safety is there. With an easy ultralight plane glide path safety margin, an experienced FAA licensed pilot beside you that wants to walk on land again too.

A local Houlton Maine pilot Gene Ross is in the sky spring, summer and fall over the Southern Aroostook County area.

Slowly buzzing over a little league baseball game, the fourth of July celebration or just drifting by during a sunny weekend afternoon as you putter in your back yard.

My youngest son Elliot bid on a Houlton Maine Rotary Auction ultralight plane ride and won it. And when I took him out to meet Gene and get strapped in, I quickly realized the pilot has safety first in mind always. After the ride, Gene asked me if I wanted to go up. You bet. What an experience.

Climbing slowly but not needing much of Houlton Maine International Airport runway for take off with a plane this small, and well, ultra light. Having to be back on pavement with the plane before sunset. The ultra light built with safety marker navigation lights. And pilot Gene Ross keying the microphone to fire up the KHUL landing strip marker beacons remotely. You do not feel inside a glass and fiberglass bubble with an ultra light plane ride. You are right out in the open. No obstacles in your way to enjoy the view, vista. It’s a quick up and down process at a small Houlton Maine rural airport setting.

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Took some neat aerial images of Houlton Maine like this one that I use in our blog posts, day to day real estate job too. The Houlton Maine community looks so much different from the air.

If you have a chance to be asked want an ultralight plane ride in Maine, anywhere on the revolving blue and green marble, put your right thumb up quickly.

Take the ultralight plane flight. Ride shot gun in to the wild blue yonder for the experience. Without worrying about is your term life insurance policy paid up or not.

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

June 2, 2011
Up At 5Am And The Maine Farm Cows Waiting.

Maine Farms, Wide Open Beautiful And Low Cost.

Sliding out of bed, throwing on some barn clothes and heading out to feed, water the Maine farm animals.

Early morning is the best time of day, unless you stayed up too late the night before. The Maine farm critters needing grain, hay and some fresh water because they drink but don’t drive a lot. Thirsty from walking around the farm fields, up and down hill and dale.

Ever thought of owning your little spread of land, a patch of dirt, some wooded sections in Maine? To have an old Maine farm house. Or to purchase Maine land, a parcel of property and build your own buildings one by one? It’s not crazy.

At one time not long ago, 96% of us in this great country were farmers.

Not much money but well fed, exercised and pretty crafty at many trades. Master of none. But still a real Jack willing to roll up your sleeves and try your hand at carpentry, plumbing, electrical, welding or whatever the need was on a Maine farm. Like keeping that old tractor running, plowing and tilling up the fertile soil.

I am sure glad I was raised on a Maine farm. It made me closer to my parents who worked side by side. I got to know them better. Was taught more from them in lessons learned day in and out. Because they were not off at an office building many miles away. But all of us on the Maine farm. Working to maintain buildings, plant and havest crops. Whatever it took to stay on that Maine farm.

Farmers markets in Maine on the increase as folks want close to home, fresh produce. That is not genetically altered, not gassed with poisons to make it last the long haul from wherever it came from to be placed on the family dinner table.

Let’s talk about owning some Maine land, maybe a farm with your name on the title deed.

Or if you want us to leave you alone, just be able to browse with out any pesky real estate salesperson, agent or broker bother you, wander over in to the Maine farms video aisle. Watch, listen and then ask lots of questions about this new lifestyle you are considering on a Maine farm. I think it is a great idea.

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

May 28, 2011
Memorial Day, Official Start Of Summer Maine Waterfront Property Living.

Fun Under The Sun, On The Maine Waterfront.

If you are lucky enough to be on the water, own something next to a Maine lake, stream, river, ocean, this Memorial Day weekend will be a busy one.

If you live outside of Maine, there is no doubt a hurry scurry to get packed, head to the waterfront property. To get the camp or cottage opened up for family and friends with fingers crossed. Hoping for sunshine and warm weather with a slight breeze dialed in for good measure. To enhance that Maine summer holiday. Planning to grill something that goes well with home made potato salad, fresh Maine blueberry, strawberry rhubbarb pie. Or steaming a Maine lobster, peck of clams with a garden fresh salad.

Leisure, vacation time or maybe retirement at this Maine waterfront property is part of a balanced life. Work that satisfies, brings in the bread, pays the bills is all well and good. But time to sit in a deck chair and stare.

Out over the Maine waterfront, where the loons sing and entertain.

Fish jump, tease. Ducks quack quack paddle by. Where no two sunsets or sunrises are the same as you reflect. Enjoy a coffee or cold drink. Life, how is yours going and stepping outside of it for a long Maine summer weekend is healthy. You think of your parents doing the same holiday when you were a kid. How your kids will repeat what you show them with those grand kids.

Holidays, not just Christmas or New Years with presents, eating too much and staying up too late to mess up your regular routine. Family and friends need to have you available and what better back drop then a Maine waterfront property to help you with the transition of being a Little Red Hen efficient to throw on some shorts, a t shirt and consider going kayaking, fishing, swimming. Warning, a Maine waterfront property is another place to take care of. But the puttering, work involved can be rewarding.

Fires nightly, the sunlight causing a million diamond shape bright sparkles of flickering light off the water are just what the doctor ordered. Relax, have a seat, get off the treadmill and fill your lungs with Maine fresh air.

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

May 26, 2011
Fiddleheads Along Maine Rivers, Streams, Brooks.

Fiddleheads, Many Eat Them Steamed, With Vinegar Added To The Greens.

If you are from Maine you know what a fiddlehead is.

Not confusing it with the business end of a musical instrument but knowing it is a delicacy. Only around in the early spring in Maine when the green lush vegetation returns.

Some folks like to pick the green by the bushels to resell. Others buy their fiddleheads, all cleaned and fresh.

Maybe using vinegar on this vegetable Maine is famous for.

I see cans of Maine fiddleheads on grocery store shelves from a packer, canner in Lewiston Maine. Learn more about Maine fiddleheads.Fiddleheads, another food of Maine besides blueberries, lobsters, clams and potatoes. Have you ever had them? Come try them, one more reason to come to Maine.

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

May 22, 2011
Quick Trip To Washington DC To Watch College Graduation.

Heading In For Some Luna Grill Food Out On The Terrace.

Folks on the road around Maine, around the nation enjoying high school and college graduations.

It’s that time of year again and just made a Jeep trip to Washington DC to watch oldest son, one of four children graduate from college.

Fun time to eat at Old Ebbitt Grill and Fogo De Chao. The first two down from the White House sperated by the US Tresury. The other a steakhouse from Brazil where table side carving of meats of all kinds happen. Had to waddle out of that last place. Nando’s with spicy chicken was hard to beat too. The Luna Grill and Diner was great food and atmosphere and a place my oldest daughter remembered eating at ten years ago when a page in Washington during high school. She was there when 911 hit and in the Library of Congress.

Three down, one to go on the college front. The youngest in Colorado Springs CO and has completed two years, half way through his college career.

It will be neat to have the two youngest, the boys, home for the summer in Maine.

Have lots of jobs around the Maine farm to tackle and hope for a sunny not rainy summer for lots of reasons.

It’s fun to visit Washington DC and see it through the eyes of your son who just finished 3.5 years of college schooling there. But boy is the open space of Maine some kind of neat to return to. And leaving humidity of the noisy city behind where you have to think about crime, lock everything up. It’s just too crowded, too many people.

Give me a Maine lake side gas grill with a sunset, loon singing and whatever you cook up for the family is A-OK in my book. Guess I am a personal fan of Maine, made with only the most natural, fresh ingredients.

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

May 18, 2011
Hero Is A Cat I Got In A Sale Of An Amity Maine Home.

You Made A Mistake On The Spelling Of Victorian Robin.

The owners of a cat in Amity Maine were moving to Florida.

The couple had tried for a long time to have their first child. And learned during the home sale that a stork was flying over head.

They were excited but worried at the same time. About what they heard on the grapevine. Read online about cat boxes causing problems with pregnant moms. Did not want to take any chances.

So Hero, their cat was not making the relocation trip to the Sunshine state.

Would never get to see Mickey and Minnie and their cartoon friends on the drop of a hat easy.
I Need A Nap, So Hurry It Up With The Photo Shoot. This Is My Best Profile, Side. Meow.

During the home listing, Hero followed me around the house as we “staged” it for images. And a video that we shoot, edit, render and upload to video platforms like youtube.

He was very personable, curious/ And during the home property listing on the kitchen table climbed in to my lap, was socialable.

So in addition to buying a big screen television set at the home moving sale and getting their home sold, I came away with a Sylvester looking one of a kind cat.

We had a kitten from the local Houlton Maine animal shelter, a gray tiger, a female. Hero, a neutered male fit right in.

Polite, cool, calm, collected. Letting her always eat first. Pretty laid back, chill. Not easily excited. Never neurotic like the little gray tiger can be.

He was able to get Allie to consider going outdoors.

She seems less nervous with him here and they do the things pairs of cats do. NASCAR races around the house, bath time. Power nap, sleeping in the sunniest places found and shared together.
Herding Cats, In Maine Don’t Try To. They Run, Rule The Roost.

My neighbor calls him Steve.

Because she did not realize the new cat who arrived in the winter was ours.

So he was a double agent cat, with two dishes going and juggling two households.

I’ve blogged about Kim my neighbor before who is a girl scout den Mom and moves a lot of girl scout cookies. The yard is like LAX when spring distribution happens, with set times for parents and brownies to show up and get those addictive cookies. $40,000 worth of cookies are bought, sold in Houlton Maine!

Hero Thinks “Wonder If He Has A Treat In His Pocket For Me?”
Hero has been to the Katahdin Bank next door a lot. He has been in their vault, and sneaks in with customers when the door opens to the bank. He comes in to our office and the kids of real estate buyers and sellers love him. He has it made. I am his third, but final forever home.

Today Hero decided to help my secretary Robin and found a place to hide and watch like cats do. They say you don’t own a cat, but that they have servants. Life would be very different without Hero and Allie around our house.

Cats, dogs, pets are part of the family.

Help adopt one needing a home. Especially if you know of an elderly person living alone. They won’t be anymore with a cat on board running the daily entertainment show. Ever notice how you talk to cats? Higher pitched baby talk voices. Giving them total attention when they want catnip, special snacks, a scratch where they can’t reach.

Another blog post about four cats that like to fly private jets to Maine.

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

May 11, 2011