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  • Strangers, You Won’t Bump Into, Find Many In Maine.

    Strangers, folks that are elevator contained quiet, not making eye contact.

    Keeping pretty much to themselves in the small area surrounding them. When you live in Maine, the wide open space changes all that. You don’t worry about anyone approaching from the side at a fast pace. Your survival defense systems don’t kick into high gear.

    Maine Flowers
    Fresh, Maine Morning Flowers After Overnight Shower Starts A New Day In Vacationland.

    Unless you are traveling in Maine, and four long, spindly legs are spotted in the high beams. Maine moose at 1 o’clock. A very large Maine moose.

    Those majestic beasts of the Maine woods make very large vehicle hood ornaments.

    Hitting a black bear at a healthy clip is like meeting a bag of cement. Spinning Boo Boo around and gyro twisting him into your car back door. Causing a call to your local body shop. To employ the dent puller, frame machine for realignment to factory vehicle specs.

    But back to not a lot of strangers in Maine. I stopped into a country corner convenience store Sunday night. And noticed New York plates on the car closest to the glass door next to the check out as I trotted in. After an Uncle Henry’s, little snack and standing in the check out line. Said hello, smiled at the father and son ahead of me. It startled the pair.

    The silent communication trumpeted in the look harpooned back saying “who are you, we don’t know you” part of the defense system.

    Second nature to someone living in a very crowded, not so safe, can’t ever be too sure city setting. It made me think how friendly folks in Maine are. Unless you start on a chant of “back in Jersey” blah blah blah. Then the locals retreat a tad because of the ding to the area we are so glad to live, work, play in day and night.

    Maine Ducks On Lake Photo
    Maine. We Stick Together, Like Momma Duck, The Kids In Tow.
    Where we feel very fortunate to raise our families, run our small businesses, explore and tramp the great outdoors all four seasons.

    When less people live in an area, those folks are more aware of each other.

    Not so afraid to communicate and we don’t shut down. Get all reserved and self protective. Because Mainers are used to helping each other out. Whether it’s the guy down the street with the plow that blows open the end of your plugged with snow driveway.

    Maine Snow Skiing, Swish Swish.
    Looking Like Bank Robbers, But Layered For Maine Down Hill Skiing.

    Or when your vehicle hood is up and you need a battery jump start. No shortage of folks that rally, are up for the challenge. To do what they can to get you back on the road. To where you need to be, were headed before a flat as a pancake battery charge happened.

    Maybe the advice don’t talk to strangers as Kevin points out to the cashier in the movie while holding down the fort alone.

    Picking up a few essential grocery items. Giving TV dinners a whirl. Grabbing a small jug of laundry detergent.

    We need, help, work together in Maine. Have to because less people means more aware of the local population. Working events, traveling in the same smaller circles. And all holding inside a fierce love, pride of where we are lucky to live. The place with the space called Maine. Dagnabbit. Don’t stay away so long. Come sample ME.

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

  • Maine, Don’t Need To Join The Gym.

    Meet Your New Maine Four Legged Neighbor.
    Maine, Full Of Wildlife, You See, Share The Woods With.

    Walking, hiking, cross country and down hill swish swish with the skis, Maine is four seasons of recreation.

    Maine is lots of never ending outdoor excercise. Exploring, working the land, in the woods. So the idea of joining a gym to get more excercise, any work out routine to get in shape always strikes me strange.

    I spent the afternoon following the blazed property lines around a 166 acres of Maine land with a waterfalls in Moro Plantation, not far from Mt Katahdin, Baxter Park.

    Five hours up and down, exploring the Maine woods, lay of the land, condition of the timber stand.

    In places, the drop to one corner line was over 100 feet on the Maine woodlot.

    Startled a couple game birds, saw signs of Maine deer and moose. Enjoyed a water falls of a river. And thought how lucky I am to live in Maine. Stumbled on to a Maine moose pictured above. Don’t need a stairmaster, treadmill. The scenery in the woods, on the Maine river is way way more exciting than the four walls of the inside a gym.

    Working the land, splitting heating wood, Maine is an excercise routine. A lifestyle where you don’t hire it out, you do it yourself. It is secondary gain in everything we do. Joy in getting the job done right. Yourself.

    The work is done complete with the satisfaction from the effort that’s our own.

    Hiring out in Maine is not the norm. Being a jack of all trades is. Just the way it works in Vacationland.

    Self sufficient, being capable and developing new skills is what survival in a rural state like Maine is all about. Being empowered, hands on, on the front lines. Maine, is it like that where you live now?

    Here in Maine it is not about the money.

    Living in Maine is about the experiences. White water rafting the Penobscot, Dead, Kennebec Rivers. Down hill skiing Sugarloaf, Sunday River, other smaller snow covered mountains. Maine, get here quick as you can.

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