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  • The Church Sermon For This Sunday When You Live In Maine.

    Home Is Where Your Heart Is, Grateful To Have A Home
    Dinner Bell Ringing Loudly In This Maine Nest

    Sunday in Maine is supposed to be set aside to count your blessings, relax with family, remove your nose from being pressed tightly to the grindstone.

    To take a deep breath, reflect on how you are doing to be a better person helping others around you where you live. And thinking of those far far from where you lay your head down at night. Awareness. We all have room for improvement but most would get an “A” for trying. Our hearts in the right place with our daily efforts around the blue and green marble.

    In Maine, there are many places that feel spiritual, special and where we gravitate to often to listen and learn. It is not just under a steeple, inside where pews are lined up like rows of Christian soldiers on Sundays. Or prayer meetings on Wednesday nights. Climbing Mount Katahdin with the kids, skiing down any size Maine mountain, can put you in that place. Heading out on to a bottle smooth, calm Maine lake at 5 AM in the morning as the sun comes up is another setting ripe for that same connection. So can watching Maine wildlife from lake loons to white tail deer and bald eagles soaring over head scanning for lunch below.

    Working hard on a Maine farm to get the hay in before those black threatening clouds roll in, open up and ruin the cutting you just baled. Struggling with tractor problems, baler glitches. But then closing the barn doors tightly.

    The Maine hay crop all in where it is nice and dry.

    Safe and secure just as the hard, increasing force pelting rain drops violently begin the attack on the barn metal roof. Just in time. There is an awareness, a closeness to what matters and giving credit where it is due. To God and community, your parents who shaped you. And for just being in your special place on earth every day in a rural off the beaten path state like Maine. We all consider ourselves very fortunate, lucky, grateful to live in Maine. And we are. It is not like this every place.

    Today’s sermon is about gratitude. Being grateful is being rich.

    My Mom, Dad preached it often, reminding their four boys that gratitude is riches. It is a life long adapted, perfected habit or skill that no matter how bleak or dire, something good comes out at the end of the personal or family or community storm.

    And when everything goes your way and you are singing inside, happy radiated so loudly everyone knows for miles around without you uttering a word, telling them, you don’t take personal credit. And are humbled, aware that life has twists and turns but this is one scenic turnout to enjoy, bask in, reflect over. Maine has lots of “scenic turn outs”. Internal and external “photo opportunities“.

    Everything happening with casual speed is how most folks lives play out. All the events, one by one unfolding, arriving, playing out right on time. The way they are suppose to day in and day out. If you are lucky to have been blessed with kids, live in a state and town that gives you a sense of purpose, you are fortunate. It is not about you, it is about others and being grateful for all you do have. I am a personal fan of Maine and love where I live. I think you would be happy here too. Here are some options on breaking off a chunk of Maine for your own. Get here quick as you can.

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

  • Questions Often Asked About Maine When You Don’t Live Here.

    Like A Maine Red Deer, Folks Calling, Emailing All Ears For What Life Is Like Here.
    Vacationland Information, What Living In Maine Is All About, Like.

    You’ve never been to Maine but have heard good things about the state.

    But you have burning questions, concerns, topics needing addressing. Ok (stepping up to the podium) I’m game. In fact, we get asked many questions in the course of our work as a Maine real estate broker every day. Heck we did a video for the Maine FAQ common ones.

    But besides questions about the weather, crime, if we have any gangs (no, thank you) the inquirers are like an explorer hungry, thirsty for information.

    Over and over the same why is Maine real estate priced so low, how far are you from Boston, New York, Saturn and tell me about your schools, recreation, healthcare, churches.

    It runs the A to Z and we produce many other videos to handle those questions.

    Talking to the person posing the Maine questions works better than just tapping out electrons to form words. Like you are grazing on right now as you pair of eyeballs do the typewriter scan like eating corn, back and forth. With Maine videos, you can hear the blogger’s voice. See his facial expressions. Have some audio visuals packaged in and to just sit there.

    Scope out our Maine community videos when you have some time if you are serious about learning all I can share about life in Vacationland. Maine, one super place and the longer I listen to the questions coming from outside, the more I know life here is very special.

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

  • FAQ Maine Questions….Careful Of The Source.

    Maine, Learn More, Follow MeInMaine Blog Posts
    Maine, Get Here Quick As You Can.

    Consider the source is always good advice, the same is true of Maine information, details.

    If the person telling you A-Z about a place like Maine he or she has never been, how good are the details. I mean the best contestants on Jeopardy are pretty well versed on a variety of subjects. But wouldn’t you rather learn about Maine from someone from here? I think so too. Our Maine FAQ video hits the highlights, starts the process of making your dream a reality. Follow our sister Maine blog posts too to start forming the image of what the state in the right hand corner of the country is really all about.

    Maine, lots to write home about. But you’ll learn more about the flavor, the spark, the place and people if you keep your source folks that live, work and play… have actually been here.

    Not your hairdresser’s second cousin’s neighbor who has heard good things but never been here.

    Make the trip, get to Maine. This is my story, why I live here in Maine.

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

  • The Saint Bernard’s Name Was Duke, The Maine German Sheperd Nameless.

    More Space, Less People, Fresh Air, Lots Of Land, Trees, Nature.
    More Space, Less People, Fresh Air, Lots Of Land, Trees, Nature.
    My dad grew up on a Maine potato and dairy farm and had a Saint Bernard. Duke was a gentle natured dog, not anything resembling Stephen King’s Cujo movie of an animal of the same breed that gets rabies and wreaks havoc on a Maine town. Duke was big, but not usually aggressive. My dad had never seen him reprimanded for any barn yard infraction growing up. Until one day.

    A German sheperd, a neighbors dog use to come in to the dooryard and tease Duke. Nipping at him but not just in a playful way.

    (Disclaimer: My family had several German sheperd dogs growing up and like the breed.)

    Never learned the name of this visiting dog that stirred up trouble but over time it became more and more aggressive. Duke taking it all calmly as it happened and to the point that the family, field hands wondered how much he would stand for.

    One day the German sheperd a third the size of Duke had the Saint Bernard backed in to a tight corner between a barn and connecting, angled machine shed. Everything changed as if a switch was thrown. Duke reared up, practically ripped the throat out of the German Sheperd.

    It took three men to seperate the dogs even though the German Sheperd was trying to get away.

    I’ve thought about that story, situation and wondered how it applies to people, to areas of over population. Maine is a place of elbow room, we don’t lock doors. Folks respect each other’s property, opinions, feelings. But if we were “in a corner”, our personal space invaded day in and out, with a twist of traffic, noise, crime, and continuous hurry hurry, well, the mild mannered help you out nature would change.

    In my job I hear the line over and over in emails, communications on the phone or in person with Maine real estate buyers coming home to Maine.

    “I just want to get away from all those people”.

    It’s not being anti-social. More of an attitude of “what now” with neighbors too close, on top of each other down country and bothering others without trying. While the relocating, retiring moving to Maine people can, they just want to be able to wake up, have a day without drama of you did this, you should not have done that. The tension when you live between a rock and a hard place day in, day out takes it toll. Made them irritable, jumpy, not their true selves. Maine, whole different way of life here.

    I’m Maine Real Estate Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Boredom, Spending Money To Make Yourself Happy, Not In Maine Are You?

    Doing His Job, On A Mission Of Honey.
    Doing His Job, On A Mission Of Honey.

    When you live in a small Maine town, that community is vibrant, full of spirit and pride because you are a volunteer.

    Working on local events, active in your Maine church, a youth sports booster or coach. The fun is the community, the connection and working together for the common good of the community in the part of Maine you hail from. But whether you are from Bethel or Wallagrass Plantation, West Buxton Or Amity Maine, the same way we roll applies anywhere in Maine.

    The fun, recreational outlets here don’t have price tags of different sizes attached to them. The peace and contentment, joy is the natural beauty surrounding you when you are in Maine. Less people mean more space, a guarantee of more of the same day and and out. The community suppers for a cancer stricken local, one you don’t really know but kind of feel connected to thru a brother, or a neighbor related to her. You worry, say a prayer for him or her. Concern for others, awareness of others in the villiage. That is Maine.

    And kids. Kids are king.

    Smaller population here, but moms, dads, family traveling from two hours away in all directions to be part of the friendly, spirited competition. Family, the great outdoors, work ethic to pitch in. Complain less, do more. Maine keeps it simple, but enjoys so much from the rock bound coast lines and harbor life. To rolling Aroostook County potato fields, to blueberry farming Downeast. And everything in between from Portland’s old port section of shops, the attractions in Bar Harbor, the skiing at Sunday River, Sugarloaf, and a slew of smaller mountains.

    Maine, get here quick as you can. Make her part of your day to day.

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

  • Maine Small Town Living…Wearing More Hats, Feeling More Connected, Needed.

    Local Soap Box Derby Racing Is Big In Houlton Maine, 66 Volunteers Make The Nation's Largest Event Happen.
    Local Soap Box Derby Racing Is Big In Houlton Maine, 66 Volunteers Make The Nation’s Largest Event Happen.

    In small Maine towns, you quickly learn there is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.

    Everyone has roles to play. The area in Maine they hang those many hats they wear is better off, richer, fuller for local volunteers and their day in, day out efforts. The most important hats in Maine are the jobs, roles you take on with your family…like little league coaching, soap box derby racing, being a sunday school teacher. Kids learn from the entire villiage in Maine. There is a connection and everyone feels a sense of belonging, that they are needed. Because they are.

    Many of the service club civic work a local Mainer does, takes on is because in smaller areas, if they did not, it might not get done. Fewer people in Maine..just over a million folks mean grab a tool, hone a skill and take on a job the area folks need you to assume, sign on to. Less people, heck eleven people per square mile in Northern Maine, Aroostook County translates to just enough to have a game thinking. Like when you live in the country in rural Maine and only so many houses in the few miles around your home, so back yard baseball contests with the local kids means hunt, stratch, beg, plead sometimes to fill a skeleton roster.

    You’re all there is situation in Maine but a sense of pride that you have a needed role you volunteered to. Lots of them. Serving on local town government boards, helping to shape the future direction, development of the town in Maine you call home. I make my living “selling” Maine and have for thirty years as a Maine real estate broker. But the blogs we write here, around the internet, the videos we shoot, edit and post about the listings, the local community events are not just part of my job. I am a personal fan of Maine. You reading this blog must be too. Once you get all Maine offers, how sincere and caring, hard working the local people are, you find your real home, niche, place under the sun. I am not just a promoter of Maine. I sincerely enjoy living here, promoting it and way I can.

    In Maine, our local bands, parades, state hosting of music, sporting events are home grown, not store bought. Our financial resources are limited, our creative efforts to get an event off the ground are off the charts to track. There is nothing stronger than the heart of a Maine volunteer.

    Often a kid benefiting from the experience is all that is needed to get the program, event, annual tradition off the ground in a small Maine town.

    Sometimes the drive is simply knowing when you were young, growing up in a small town other older members of the town put their shoulder in to this, this and this event. Pick yours and assume the position when you enter adulthood. You feel needed in small Maine towns, connected, aware of the other folks who live here. Why? because you are. What would your area where you live suffer from, lose if you were not there to do this, this and this?

    This blog helps get the word out about how we roll in Maine. We work, don’t feel entitled to any free lunch.

    Our hearts are strong, designed, shaped, taught to get involved on a strong local level. That’s why I live in Maine.

    Ask me how you can get a taste of Maine, or to relocate, retire, get to raise a family here. It’s one of my favorite subjects, hobbies, hats I wear. Here is an video example of a couple living in the Maine woods of Masardis..to give you a taste of being in the woods of Aroostook County..full time on a the Aroostook River.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    Call 207.532.6573
    Email info@mooersrealty.com