living in maine Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/living-in-maine/ Maine Local Community Blog Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:03:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://meinmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-moose-Maine-32x32.png living in maine Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/living-in-maine/ 32 32 Mud Season In Maine https://meinmaine.com/2025/03/17/mud-season-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mud-season-in-maine Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:03:18 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18277 Mud season in Maine. It’s the in between winter and spring and can vary greatly in length. Maine’s mud season is the messy transition between bight white to the green of spring, typically from March through April, depending on the year. Snow starts to recede, dirt roads get muddy, temperatures raise the red in the […]

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]]> How To Start A Small Farm In Maine, Why People Homestead? https://meinmaine.com/2025/03/03/how-to-start-a-small-farm-in-maine-why-people-homestead/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-start-a-small-farm-in-maine-why-people-homestead Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:05:33 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18258 How to start a small farm in Maine, why people homestead? Space, less or no regulations, no home owner’s associations, low crime. Is it time to trade the chaos of city life for simple living, no traffic, and the natural beauty of rural Maine? More and more people are moving to Maine for peace and […]

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]]> Pot Luck Suppers, Covered Dish Meal Dining https://meinmaine.com/2023/07/17/potluck-suppers-covered-dish-meal-dining/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=potluck-suppers-covered-dish-meal-dining Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:52:42 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=17757 Potluck suppers, covered dish meal dining! In rural Maine, it’s go easy on the host. Everyone brings a covered dish that is known community wide as their piece de resistance that gets rave reviews. Look at that long row of covered dish surprises at a potluck supper in Maine. It’s never take you chances or […]

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]]> Helpful, Handy, Humorous | Welcome To Maine https://meinmaine.com/2023/03/04/helpful-handy-humorous-welcome-to-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=helpful-handy-humorous-welcome-to-maine Sat, 04 Mar 2023 16:25:03 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=17644 Helpful, handy, humorous, welcome to Maine ! When you spend time in Maine on vacation, you pick up on how the local population natives interact. You sense how connected a small Maine community is and witness first hand “home town ” pride in everything on the local level. Mainers are helpful. Lazy is not in […]

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]]> Living In Maine Blog Post https://meinmaine.com/2020/10/30/living-in-maine-blog-post/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-in-maine-blog-post Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:00:39 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=16393 Living in Maine. These are the best of times if you accept, adjust, adapt, and creatively do the best you can with a positive spirit. When you grow up in rural Maine, being resourceful and collectively as a community tackling change happens. If this is your first setback, life is harder. These can be the […]

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]]> Work Life Balance When You Live In Maine https://meinmaine.com/2020/06/03/work-life-balance-when-you-live-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=work-life-balance-when-you-live-in-maine Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:04:46 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=16178 The work life balance when you live in Maine. For me, each new day is an amazing opportunity to try something new. Work. Life. Balance. To meet and learn from folks both local and far far from my home town Maine zip code surroundings. I believe being raised on a Maine farm with three older […]

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]]> Winter Arrives In Maine, What Stirs Inside When Snow Returns? https://meinmaine.com/2018/11/18/winter-arrives-in-maine-what-stirs-inside-when-snow-returns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=winter-arrives-in-maine-what-stirs-inside-when-snow-returns Sun, 18 Nov 2018 16:47:41 +0000 http://meinmaine.com/?p=13151 To someone with no Maine winter snow experience, there are mixed emotions. The reaction to the snow flakes in the weather forecast hits folks in many different ways. If you are not prepared for winter like most things in life, you get dragged into the experience. Rather than excited about a shift to a new […]

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]]> Maine, Big State, Low Population | Spend Time Finding You In ME. https://meinmaine.com/2016/10/31/maine-big-state-low-population-spend-time-finding-you-in-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-big-state-low-population-spend-time-finding-you-in-me Mon, 31 Oct 2016 08:19:16 +0000 http://meinmaine.com/?p=12114 In the 1960’s there were fists raised high, shaking them at the Establishment. Peace man, lava lights, bell bottoms, free loving the one you’re with, draft card and flag burning. Hell no, we won’t go. And many tie dyed t-shirt and headband lads and lassies needing a bath hopped the border into Canada to avoid […]

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]]> Blog Post Topics On Other Maine Subjects… https://meinmaine.com/2016/01/18/blog-post-topics-on-other-maine-subjects/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blog-post-topics-on-other-maine-subjects Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:50:21 +0000 http://meinmaine.com/?p=11802 Conversation starters are usually caused by comparing notes eating at local Maine diners. Elbow to elbow with the pass the black pepper please courtesy exchange. Not just creating. sharing idle chatter filling the time about the Maine weather either. We pick up and have been a hitch hiker too and add to the memory banks […]

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]]> Questions From The Answers, Sometimes More Is Needed. https://meinmaine.com/2015/08/24/questions-from-the-answers-sometimes-more-is-needed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=questions-from-the-answers-sometimes-more-is-needed Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:15:12 +0000 http://meinmaine.com/?p=11587 In depth, long extended play anything is the most rewarding right? But today in the quickness of drive through and multi tasking, cutting to the chase can miss much. Like Monarch or Cliff’s Notes for the high school or college student that waited until the night before the exam to read War and Peace. Or […]

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