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  • ME Little Leaguers Fund Raising Means Maine Spring Is Near.

    Playing As A Team, Sometimes The First Organized Sports Event Of Your Life.
    Maine Little Leaguers Work Their Hearts Out, All For The Fun, Maybe Pizza, Ice Cream.

    The seasons change in Maine bring new activities in our many small communities, villages and handful of cities.

    Little leaguers parked on a post office steps, outside a popular diner or grocery store in uniforms. Full of hope for a shot at the season town title.

    Some returning from a winter off.

    Others brand new and worried about striking out, getting hit by a bean ball pitcher.

    Or their parents are. Most players are just glad to have made the team. Buttoned up that team uniform this morning before getting the tags to hand out to sport booster donators. The tags to show contribution made. They have already “paid” so they are not swarmed at another Saturday morning stop while running errands around a Maine town.

    The matching color uniformed individuals on the team laughing, working the crowd, fielding the donations. Occassionally getting a large contribution stuffed in the can.

    Like hitting the cycle because that older gentlemen who has to struggle to get in to his rusted Ford pick up was a coach.

    He remembers those inside the park home runs, game winners. Giving the kid who whacked it the game ball to wake up to on his night stand or clothes bureau every day for the rest of his childhood.

    Back when his grown son or daughter wasn’t so tall, lived at home. Those days with racing to games, getting kids to practice if you ddidn’t live close enough for them to ride their bikes are the best years of a family’s life.

    Laughter in the home, excitement in the back yard as if it was Fenway Park.

    It is. Kinda, sorta. On a slightly much smaller scale without the hot dog and beer vendors. Or high paid celebrity salaries and larger than life egos.

    I have sponsored a local team since 1983. Am some kind of proud of the Maine little league players, their coaches, the fans, parents, famliy. They have an expense account at the local dairy bar, win or lose. Just try your best, make sure to have fun, and work hard to improve. To come from behind working as a team to win a close one in extra innings. The game you went in to with the other team, a little part of yourself thinking this is going to be a blood bath, shellacking. And it is not. That’s little league when every kid contributes. Not just the star pitcher in this week’s rotation. Or the coach’s kid who started learing the game being talked to while in the womb.

    Sometimes the game is played in the stands too. Hooting, hollering, proud of the team you came to cheer on, root for. Spring is coming, dig deep in to put money in the can to keep the program a live, running strong. It is an America tradition on the most intimate, personal scale with local little league stars you know. Live down the street from.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, Broker
    Own some Maine Real Estate, why not?
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Maine, The News Should Be Different Than Other Places.

    When I worked at a local Maine radio station, the news we read usually was from a wire service.

    FSSR In Maine Is Low, Not Common.
    The Country Has Four Main State Messed Up With FSSR, ME Not One Of Them.
    The Associated Press, United Press International the two chocolate and vanilla choices. Pretty much it. And the smaller the Maine radio station, the more rip and read happened.

    But writers can ramble on in blogs, on the news, the extra pages in books. So taking the six line Maine news story and condensing down the wordiness, tightening it up can free up more time in the broadcast for extra news stories. Hopefully local ones. Or the rewrite of the AP and UPI wire service, especially on weekends when the quality of writing took a dive, a dip, also allowed the local addition of news possible. An extra line to tie in something happening in the the station’s broadcast area, out in the backyard.

    Big national stories could have a tie in with what is happening here.

    Sometimes, often the city news is not the same dynamic or application as here in rural Maine.

    Or news from a larger Maine area four hours away from a small couple hundred person town is not the carbon copy, one size, fits all either. Further refining and adjustment to reflect the local zip code and appetite of the local ears listening to the broadcast taken in to consideration. To make it home grown.

    That is why nothing upsets me more than hearing the news of four states with an upside down real estate market. With high levels of FSSR (foreclosure, short sale, repossession related real estate sales). And the national media and even Maine real estate agents, brokers, REALTORS buying in to the gloom and doom. Maine is 46th lowest in the nation for FSSR. Hello? Does not apply here.

    What is happening in California, Florida, Michigan and Nevada real estate market especially is not the norm here. It does not apply to us but the media with a one size fits all approach and news desk far far from lower population Maine hammers away at the sky is falling.

    Which serves to make the public scared, misinformed.

    And to pull back, wait, sit, worry.

    I joke to our outside of Maine real estate buyers that we take money right out of the equation. Properties are always low cost, cheap. We live like we are always ready for a recession. Careful spending, getting value before we do or we wait. So the national helter skelter red alert warnings and news coverage can further the keep your hands in your pockets. Not out where we can see them at all times.

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

  • The Maine Lake, How Deep, What Kind Of Fish Questions.

    What Is In The Lake For Fish, How Deep Is The Waterbody?
    Maine, Fish Like Deep, Clean, Cold Oxygen Rich Water.

    You’re toying with buying property on a Maine lake and wonder what is in that waterbody for fish and how deep is it?

    The deeper the Maine lake, the more oxygen for the fish that can not survive in a warmer, shallower water habitat. Here is a helpful link for Maine lake depths, maps. More information broken down by Maine counties on lakes, ponds for access and other waterfront information.

    Maine lake survey maps and other licensing for fishing the many lakes, ponds, rivers in Vacationland are good topics to research from ME Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

    Maine has 2348 lakes, ponds, reservoirs, and other fishing bodies of water to choose from, enjoy, explore.

    Study the Maine lake directory. And lobstering in Maine, there is a story that goes along with that. A tough old life with overhead, financial struggles. But over fishing has not happened due to conservation measures. Maine lobsters thrown back unless they pass the many test.

    Put more Maine fish in your diet. For that matter make sure to have just more Maine in your day to day.

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

  • Maine, Something Sweet, Natural Like Maple Sap, Syrup, Honey.

    The Spring Sap In Maine Is Running As Warmer Days Show Up.
    Take In A Maine Maple Syrup Open House Happening In Vacationland

    This weekend many local Maine maple syrup operations will open their doors for an open house to the public.

    To invite you in to see how much maple tree sap it takes to boil down, evaporate to make the golden elixir that tastes so devine on home made pancakes. I drove by the Spring Break maple sugar shack operation on US Rt 2 in Smyrna after taking a real estate listing in Patten Maine.

    I saw lots of activity inside the Maine sugaring operation and from this website see this weekend an open house is planned. You’ll see they also have honey bee nectar sweetness available to purchase too. See the nearest Maine maple sugar syrup operation to visit soon. Check the site link for a list of open house times, dates for the Maine maple syrup bottling operation nearest you in Vacationland.

    The syrup running in Maine maples and the bucket collection or more sophisicated tubing with gravity doing its job from a grove is a sight to behold.

    Especially for little ones or field trips from schools to taste a treat naturally, not artificially made in Maine.

    It also signals a spring tradition in Maine, like canoe races. Make plans to visit Vacationland and sample some of the outdoor wholesome goodness and fill your lungs with fresh spring air. Other fun things to to in Aroostook County, that borders Canada on the east below in map form.


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

  • Lots Of Folks Spent Time Growing Up On A Farm.

    Maybe it was not a Maine farm.

    Possibly your grandparents

    Hay Is Cheap The Expression...Could Change.
    Where Your Food Comes From, Space And Land To Grow It Locally Important.
    owned the spread and you only came summers. But you quickly learned the farm in Maine, anywhere is not a leisurely walk in the park or easy. Work, round the clock because chores need doing. And weather has a bearing on the final outcome of a crop that you make money on or lose totally.

    The years on the farms with the up and down of the markets to the south, in the cities makes even a break even year a good one.

    You get to farm again and don’t spend money you don’t have.

    But consider you are lucky to be warm, well fed and raise a family learning work ethic. Being a hard worker for survival is an important skill for kids to learn at an early age.

    I listed a Maine farm home with big barn and it had animals in in that 50×30 post and beam structure. More pets really but the smell of hay, even horse manure outside brought back a zillion memories. Of being at my Aunt Ruth’s horse farm as a kid. And working on the potato farm in Maine my parents ran.

    Country is good and no matter how crazy the news gets, you run your own independent show on a farm. Feed yourself, heat with wood from the lot out back. The same one earlier family generations went to for their wood supply too.

    Do you ever worry about city groceries and what if the cupboards were bare, empty? And if you lived in the city, urban area what would you do? Plant vegetables on the terrace of your high rise? Or try to plant rows of something to eat on the roof top and hope you are not caught by the superintendent of the building? Or that others in it don’t poach and harvest your crop before you do?

    If you think alcohol, drugs, gambling is addictive, I think food is right up there with air and water. You have to have it, so do your kids. Where your food comes from, not just what does it cost and will it run out should be in the back of your mind. Because few of us has ever gone to bed hungry, not knowing where your next meal is coming from.

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

  • Spring Flowers In Maine, Begin Again.

    Seeds Scattered By The Wind, Birds, Maine Wild Flowers My Favorite.
    Maine Lupines, So Special Because Not Man Planted.

    Maine’s four seasons all have highlights, hold something special for each person in shared and unique ways.

    Spring after a Maine winter can seem like housekeeping outside is needed. Raking up gravel from plow trucks on lawns. Looking for tulips, crocus and other flowers planted last fall that have bulbs.

    Removing the Christmas wreath you forgot was on the front door that only gets used at Halloween.

    When goblins, trick or treaters climb the front steps, hop on the porch and ring the front door bell in search of a sugar high.

    Simple flowers in Maine with the delicate beauty say it all. Hope, renewal, the passage of time. Knowing summer, fall and the cycle continues right on time. Want to own some of ME? Things to do for fun in Northern Maine in Google map form below.


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