MeInMaine blogger Andrew Mooers is a ME real estate broker, a dad of four children, a resident of Houlton Maine, Aroostook County.
Here is his Maine video story on how where he started, how he got to the here and now today.
Why any of us live where we chose and who the person is behind a blog, goods, service and anything we run in to on line. Sometimes it starts to hear a quick video story, see who the person is to connect, relate with the person on the other end of the wire, wireless signal.
In an impersonal, 200 mile an hour pace many American lead that robs life and removes the person from the process, starting with on line videos, blog posts help define the blogger. Make the person more transparent and to step in front of the camera, come to the forefront of this Maine living blog, MeInMaine. I appreciate your following the posts, welcome your comments. Maine, always, always your best case scenario. This is how I knew I was cut out to list, market, real estate in Maine, on another Active Rain blog I feed, post on.
Remove What Robs Your Happiness, Consider A Move, Relocation To Maine.
When you climb Mt Katahdin with your family, looking out from the summit in all four directions around Baxter State Park and from Maine’s highest mountain, all in the party go speechless.
Something clicks, hits deeply and you suddenly start to figure out what is important. Where you need to be. It’s easier to be happy here in Maine just with the four season surroundings as a back drop to all you do here. Minus all the problems that come with too many people is one big postive check mark or reason to circle in red the word, place called Maine.
Being lake side with your family, a sun setting after a good meal, laughter, conversation in Maine is healthy, the way life was meant to be. Add in other positives to just further enhance the experience of living in Maine which include low low, yes cheaply priced real estate so you get way way more for less. Maine is the 4th lowest crime state. Toss situations, stressors like wall to wall traffic, pollution too in Maine. And the best thing about Maine besides the wildlife, scenery, low population? The people we do have are family oriented, hard working, home town proud of their area of “Vacationland”.
So if you find an anxious feeling, jittery and wondering is this living in fear due to crime, over population, or just you…maybe Maine is all you are lacking. Happy is a choice, an attitude of counting your blessings, being grateful for all you do have. But if your surroundings on the outside in Maine help the inside work you do to be content, at peace and centered, maybe you should check this right hand corner state out first hand.
Maine, you’re not you when you’re not here.
Ever thought about moving here, a relocation to Maine? Or to own a piece of Maine for seasonal use, recreational purposes to give you something to look forward to?A place to run away on those vacations, three day weekends? That’s my day job…and I start by listening to your Maine real estate requirements, your budget, about that burning desire. Scope out some videos on Maine living, the low cost ME property options here. Maine, it’s always your best case scenario.
Not The Place You Expect To See This Elegant A Maine Memorial Or Statue.How She Got Placed In This Aroostook County Field, By Whom, A Mystery.
You have to look carefully, slowing down on the Knoxford Road in Mars Hill Maine to see her standing in the field, all alone.
North of the mountain the town in Central Aroostook County is named after. One of the first places the sun hits in the Eastern United States. How she got placed in this field, and by whom no one knows.
Have lived, driven around in all kinds of weather in my job as a Maine real estate broker for the last thirty years. Running kids to Big Rock’s Ski area, to hockey games in Canada. But someone missed seeing this “Lady In Waiting”, reaching for the sky, toward heaven. It took a fellow who left Houlton Maine at the age of eleven who is now retiring back to Aroostook County to point it out to me.
Suffering thru all types of weather, and no one sure of when she appeared, why she stands and waits in this Maine field. Called the “statue lady” by some locals, the few that know she is north of the Knoxford Road, north of Mars Hill Mountain in Mars Hill.
Maine Governor..Lots Of Folks Lined Up, Vying For The Job.
The field of Maine gubernatorial candiates..those men and women who want to live in the Blaine house. To be governor of this state Of Maine way way up in the right hand corner of the nation.
The phone calls of pre-recorded rhetoric, promises, campaign platform plank positions are coming in with intensity as primaries approach, the campaigns drag on.
And when you look over the emails, the social media web 2.0 claims, insertions along with the direct mail propaganda for the Maine governor’s race, something strikes home. The fact that all of the candidates have common agendas, simple common sense approaches to problem in Maine state government, life in the Pine Tree state.
The promises made in the glossy circulars that the mail lady here in Houlton Maine is going to get a hernia from carrying the extra campaign load poundage, tonnage. Here is some of the wisdom anyone able to vote in Maine is getting hit with, hearing without spelling out the candiate or endorsing the author of the wisdom being broadcast, circulated, promoted.
“June 8th, Tuesday, vote to fix Maine’s economy”. Who would not want to do a tightening up, crusing the facility and looking for slack of Augusta’s nuts, bolts, mechanics? “Politicians in Augusta have forgotten where all the money comes from”. It boils down to spending other people’s money is not so much fun when it runs out thinking.
“Cut the state of Maine bureaucracy”, “Get the facts, learn the truth, decide for yourself” makes you think someone is pulling your leg. Not being totally honest and here’s a guy, gal to set the record straight. Get everything out in the open. If the candidate is highly educated, or did not work in the private sector, some Maine voters will come away with this gubernatorial candidate is over qualified. Out of touch with the average blue collar worker.
And may never have made what they term “an honest dollar” outside the public sector that is perceived too big, wasteful, slow and Goliath like. Not David sling shot effective, accurate, speedy.
“Competence, Character, Accountability” are all qualities you want in anyone you deal with right? So playing the integrity card when maybe not all politicians are perceived as straight arrow pure and noble seems standard lingo to weave in to the message for some Maine Governor wannabees too.
But if all boils down that if government is too big and wasteful, if change of any type is welcomed, embraced from dissatisfied voters, tax payers, why hasn’t something been reined in, tweaked by the present folks in Augusta? The crowd holding down the senate, house, governorship seats already? All of them seem bright, involved. All got elected by Maine voters who thought they could serve them, represent them to get the job done.
Replacing the players with new ones knowing everyone on board already is trying hard. Up to speed involved. Is not dumb, wants the best for the state right? Makes you wonder when considering which boxes to check off behind the voter’s polling place curtain for the new regime players why is change going to make a difference if the system is flawed from within?
A leader, governor, with perception as someone with enthusiasm, vigor, creativity and folks around him/her with the same over the top excitement to get the state of Maine ship shape is a wonderful concept. But why does a new lead reindeer, the trickle down government dog and pony process guarantee anything different? Why doesn’t change, improvement come from within already?
And are all the promises to do this, this and fix that to unburden the small business operator, the local tax payer just wishful thinking? Words from someone outside looking in on what needs to be done but not explaining why any one with common sense now serving is not already doing the best that can be done, implementing what seems so obvious?
Fresh Winter Air, Defending The Snow Fort, Your Backyard From Attack.Working On The Maine Potato Harvest Teaches Kids Work Ethic.Hate To Be The Guy On The Inside Of The Harbor Boat Cluster In A Hurry To Get Out.
What is Maine all about? The people that are fewer in number and well spaced make the state of Maine what it is.
But the places that have not been spoiled, the four season beauty is what Maine is all about too. Sometimes blogging about this and that in Maine, adding helpful links, embedded video makes for a well rounded blog post. But other times, just rolling the slide show carousel gets the job done, makes the point succintly.
Our over 1200 Flickr Maine photostream help one by one show you this great state so far north we are almost in Canada on two sides. New Brunswick on the east, Quebec on the north and west. Our Maine 400 plus videos let you hear the people, see the folks who make the state unique, memorable too.
But sometimes hand picked, newly shot images put up one by one like an artist picture, portrait propped on an easel under soft track lighting make a point. Like a four carat diamond solitaire slid on to a ring finger. With out all the multiple images to overwhelmed. Or for a single shot to get lost in the multitude of eye candy. Like taking one child to an event, to spend the day one on one without sharing Dad or Mom with the other siblings in a family. Once in a while. Here are a few Maine images.
Maine. The word hits folks deeply, in various ways, all depending on where they live now…if they are instate already or not.
What is lacking there, what is special here about the state of Maine. Maine people would have a different way of describing the state if suddenly plucked out, bright blue beamed, yanked to an urban, crowded populated area too. They are content living in Maine now but if suddenly what we don’t have in the Pine Tree State was pointed out with some “off premise” therapy, to compare the two, that gratitude would increase.
I love Maine for what we have for unspoiled natural resources and the full slate of all four seasons to enjoy the state’s beauty in. But what we lack, what is missing in Maine is maybe even better than the long line item run down of what we count our blessings about here in “Vacationland”.
No crime, being half the state average of 4th lowest in the nation if you find yourself in Aroostook County. Or less pollution of all kinds because of the low population. Heck even light pollution that clouds even the simplest act of seeing a black velvet night sky loaded with a multitude of stars is not possible many places other than Maine. All those little things of what we have.What we don’t that only mess up living. Enjoying the short life all of us has on this green, white and blue spinning planet Earth.
So the one word ways to describe Maine. Like the headline for this MeInMaine blog post promises, broadcasts, hints at? Okay, like I said the order, the content of that list would depend on your perspective. The one word Maine descriptions to convey what the place is like to someone that is not from here. Not living here now first.
But for the folks who live here in Maine, were born and bred here, who have logged many years, spent a lot of time, gotten used to the place. Those comfortable and settled in, the list to describe Maine using only one word at a time is the kinda the same. But way way different too.
That list includes what we DON’T have here. Using words like billboards, litter, pollution, traffic, lazy, entitled, crowds, humidity. Ungrateful.
Folks who live here in this under populated state, far enough away from the street slick, crime riddled places to the south live different, appreciate not locking doors. Leaving keys in the driveway vehicles. Same cars and trucks left running as you zip in to the post office, running errands. Not worrying about personal safety. Not carrying tasers. Your kids able to walk to the movies, down town and not a wreck until they get home from little league practice when they ride their bikes every where. And this is what they would add to the Maine list of words to describe, one word at a time the people here.
Friendly. Helpful. Real. Genunine. Volunteers. Family. Porches. Churches. Christian. Creative. Resourceful. Artful. Musical. Lifestyle. Organic. Green. Homestead. Farmstead. Cottage. Camp. Cabin. Honest. Consistent. Land. Space. Protected. Insulated. Unique. Centered. Content. Picnics. Porches. Independent. Stubborn. Gentle. Loving. Caring. Survivors. Tall. Sturdy. Determined. Workers. Resilent. Thinkers. Forgivers. Accepters. Dependable. Prayers. Frugal. Comfortable. Rich. Values. Character. Aware. Blessed. Connected. Maine, so much can be said with one word definitions. Maine, she kisses, flirts, hugs and holds you tightly. Like a black bear. Not letting go of the strangle grip on your heart from day one. Grab your coat, tell your friends you are heading north up I-95 to Maine. There’s only one place like it.
