Dig in, learn more and sample another helping of Vacationland, living on a Maine lake year round.
Yikes. (Pause, keyboard goes quiet, slurp of early morning black coffee sound). Does that come off a little too vague, lofty or just leave you thinking “people don’t talk that way”?
I am sorry, starting again.
This Me In Maine blog tries very hard not to come off as a sing song tired warp record typical tourist discovery channel.
The conversation should be me seeing and thinking of just how I can help you out there in the blogging audience. Talking about what I know living in Maine.
What do you need, what can I provide starts with pondering who are you?
A big segment of you reading this blog post now have already been to Maine.
She is no stranger and you test positive. Maine has you by the heartstrings hook line and sinker. You cannot wait to visit her again.
I can’t wait to sample something new and different and I live here in Maine.
Always! But choosing to Maine my full time home, living here already provides a unique advantage. To share the local experience with photos, sometimes videos and always helpful links to learn more.
Simple blog posts on a slew of topics that all distill down into pure, all-natural Maine.
Variety, the hunt for new topics, sometimes revisits to Maine venues but covering them in a different season. My bug to provide information started working as a Maine broadcast journalist.
The decision that I wanted to raise my family in Maine made me realize I did not want to leave Maine to work my way up the broadcast ladder. I did not want to cheat the four children out of the rich experience I had growing up in rural small town Maine.
So now you know and back to giving you something worthwhile to share in this Me In Maine blog post installment today.
I am still at a Maine lake home. Not sure when or if Meg and I will move back in town for the winter. Being on a Maine lake after the summer tourists headed south is so peaceful. And now enjoying the most beautiful fall foliage season I can ever remember has made us drag our feet.
I know plenty of other people who bought a Maine lake camp and suddenly, when COVID happened, they found themselves living there too like me now.
Figuring if they had Internet, why not park it for a spell on the Maine waterfront and work online remotely. Converting their camp into a simple home. And then realizing if I can work remotely up in Maine, if I don’t have to return to the urban location expensive grind, I’m sticking around in the Pine Tree State.
Thank you COVID 19 for that life detour that turned out all for the better.
Each day living on a Maine lake, you see different wildlife walk, fly over, float by like these white helmet hooded mergansers.
Never saw them before and learned it is because they are shy.
Less people on the Maine lake this time of year reduces the anxiety as the bird in the duck family fish the water and prepare to migrate elsewhere for the winter.
The bald eagle in the big stately pine tree here at the lake is exciting to watch swoop down and clutch a large fish.
Then with serious effort flap his wings low to the water and struggle to get to higher ground and land with the mealtime prize.
The smaller group of year rounders living on a Maine lake are a special group. Banding together to clear private roads of tree limbs that hang over and threaten power lines in the fall. To prevent losing electricity in the winter months when ice and snow bring them down.
The Maine lake properties are accessed by private roads.
Sand and salt barrels are refreshed to be ready to spread on icy roads ahead.
Holiday parties with the local Maine lake community happen. Someone brought a guitar, everyone brought their signature covered dish tid bit.
Folks who own waterfront property used seasonally will reach out to local year rounders who make sure all is well at their vacant lake place.
You see ice fishing shacks appear on shore around a Maine lake this time of year.
Waiting for the tug across frozen lake ice when the local warden service declares it is safe.
Ice fishing, snowmobiling, cross country skiing and snow shoeing, pond hockey are ahead out front on a Maine lake.
Plowed roads, groomed ITS snowmobile trails across the Maine lake and small shanty villages of ice shacks start popping up as the winter season unfolds.
Getting the snowplow back on the Ford pickup one the to do list this week.To maybe plow the Maine waterfront properties.
Plow three properties, maybe four this year if we hang around the Maine lake property.
Mainers are prepared and weather speeds up the getting ready process. The lake shore dock all pulled in and parked onshore.
Seadoos, kayaks, pontoon boats all put away with deck chairs and the hammock in the storage shed. Gas grill still ready to fire up and sizzle.
The sunrises and sunsets served up are different now than back in spring or summer on a Maine lake.
Maine is like a gift that you get to keep opening up. Just providing different colors, a not quite the same angle of the sun for lighting and not one constant same temperature. All your senses get a work out living up here in rural Maine.
What else happens this time of year, late fall heading into early winter on a Maine lake?
Every vehicle you meet has something orange on the occupants. Or you see the orange hat visible on the dashboard of everyone you meet on the road.
Hunting for deer, moose, black bear to stock the freezer to pull from over the winter. The winter wood supply is ready, next year’s cut in tree length and being processed to fit the particular stove used to heat your Maine home.
Stars, when I got up this morning you cannot miss them.
Last night when Meg and I got home to the lake, the black velvet sky was loaded with stars. Maine is a dark place said in a good not sinister way.
Maine has some of the darkest, least light or smog polluted skies known to man. I think looking up and seeing the star constellations you learned about in eight grade science just intensifies the awareness.
There’s less noise, it’s more real and up close personal and sometimes just hard to explain. Everyone gleans something different depending on what else is going on in their life to color the Maine experience.
There’s Orion’s Belt, the Big and Little Dipper. The Seven Sisters.
Oh how lucky we are to live in Maine where nature and astronomy take turns surrounding us day and night. I think awareness of life, people, the environment all increases as the population around you decreases.
Will share more on life at the Maine lake in future blog posts. Hoping this installment helped share the what’s it like on the Maine waterfront.
Many folks are “uptah camp in Maine” for hunting season now. Lots of them end up spending Thanksgiving enjoying their turkey spread in their rural Maine woods camp.
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