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     #7681 A Tucked Away Houlton Maine Ranch With Rec Room, Tiled Flooring, Dead End Court Location Loaded With Privacy! $125,000

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7687 - A 4 bedroom, 2 bath lake home on Hot Brook Lake in Danforth Maine. Hardwood Floors, Seven Closets, Big Surveyed Lot, Extra Storage Shed, Parked Right On The Water's Edge! $189,900!

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100 Acres In Cary Maine With A Log Cabin Hidden In The Woods!  This One Is Handy To Fish Filed And Highly Scenic Grand Lake Region And The Haynesille Woods Infested With Deer And Wildlife!  $79,900

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     The secret to life is to make the most of the circumstances you are dealt, to remember that family is everything, to think of others and be a good neighbor, to work hard and be passionate about your job. To make your community a better place to live, work and play. Local Houlton Maine and Aroostook County youth work growing up for their spending money.  They are taught respect for others, for property and to appreciate all they do have not what they have for a list of galloping gimmees.  The Northern Maine potato harvest will start in about three weeks and that is a time enjoyed by young and old alike as a tradition special to the "County". Already, youth have jobs lined up in the potato fields and spud houses to make money for those expensive A&F pants, or a new downhill ski coat, or to save for college or that "pre owned" car.  Because Maine youth contribute to the cost of everyday life, they are more productive parts of a family which in turn translates into their role in the community they find themselves raising a familyand working in down the road.  In Northern Maine there is less money to manage, so they like their parents are taught to be better money managers.  Shut off those lights, don't leave that door open, don't waste food by taking more than you can eat.  They split and store firewood as a family annual exercise.  My kids remember trips to the Ludlow woodlot to load the farm truck with this year's heat supply of wood.  The weather in the fall in Maine is gorgeous...little chill or crispness to air in morning or early evenings but a picnic in the woods as we take a break from loading and stacking wood is a time to talk, share laugh and spend time together.  The kids feel part of the family because they contribute.  They are needed and a special part of household.  This experience and closeness translates into adults who don't look for a hand out or a country expected to take care of them...but rather what can I do to help, what work needs tackling that I can help with. 

     Northern Mainers are not lazy...and they are survivors.  This year's oil price hike, quickly get on board with energy saving operations around the household. Many local neighbors though already had the two feet of attic insulation, box sills stuffed with pink stuff and weather stripping added to the new insulated doors and windows added years ago.  Mainers don't wait until a crisis situation and are not just looking at a windows of the next twenty minutes..they plan for all the things that could happen and are prepared.  Again it comes back to how they were raised, having to be more cautious spenders because money did not flow like water thru the household budget. I would rather make less but get more from my everyday dollar in rural Maine.  With mortgages of $30, $40 and $50 thousand dollars, we don't need to have giant salaries to pay the lower insurance costs and for our free entertainment.  In Maine, recreational opportunities are endless and all you have to do is get here or live here.  Our backyard is "Vacationland". Hiking, moose spotting, skiing, fishing, boating, snowsledding and outdoor farming based lifestyle choices make Maine the place to live, work and play.  We don't have or need full time police officers in our schools, we don't need to lock our doors, people wave, smile and are nice to each other.  No need to carry a taser, no gangs, no smog, no traffic...just four season beauty and a pace of life that is sane, family oriented. Maine...the way life should be.

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Okay..Can Do. 

Consider This Farmette With Major League View! Get Four Bedrooms & Hardwood Floors !  Barn For Hobbies! Garage!  Fireplaced Living Room! Near Lakes Too! $149,900! Only In Maine..Prices Low, Quality Of Living High With Bluer Skies, Friendlier People! Watch The Show To See Details Of Narrated Video!

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In Aroostook County, In Northern Maine, The Average Winter Temperature Is 19 Degrees. 

     "Any jobs up there ?" is another question.  I tell callers if you want to be a brain surgeon or diamond cutter, then we have a problem.  But the 911 crisis caused a beefed up border and lots of new customs, immigration and border patrrol jobs that are good paying when you consider your mortgage is $300 a month and that you can buy quality homes for $40 - $90 thousand dollars all day long.  There are jobs at Smith and Wesson, Ward Log And Katahdin Log Homes, in the woods industry, the farming sector and goverment jobs due to our county seat status. Self employed and telecommuters are common and our internet connection is strong and well established. Reading other Maine blogs helps drive the point home that this is the place to be to live, work and play.

     Maine..the way life should be.

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What can you buy for a farm in Northern Maine's Aroostook County? Well..here are a few to consider..quick glance.

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     As a kid growing up, my mom Mary Lou was always interested in the family tree with stacks of correspondence, news clippings and charts with branches of the early members added as they were learned about. Activities like death or marriage or new additions to the family were carefully written in with her careful cursive style penmanship taught to her years ago in Hodgdon Maine schools.  Now with her gone, my brother Jonathan in Boxford Massachusetts has become the local historian for the family. He is fascinated with trips to old graveyards, searching public records and looks for family puzzle pieces.  Daniel Mooers is an attorney in the Portland Maine area and he has taken the missing family persons hobby even further with a yahoogroups site set up and regular news letter on the MOOERS family name.  Today receive a correspondence that gets your attention and makes me blog about what others do to stay in touch with their family roots and how they pass along the information that you want preserved and not lost. Dan writes....

This week I was jolted by an obituary I picked up on the 'net. Let me
explain my reaction to you, with a rather long explanation. Please bear
with me.

A little over a year ago, I was reading a newspaper story about a young
Swampscott, Massachusetts soldier who was killed in Iraq. The soldier was
named Jared Raymond, and the article also talked about his friend and
cousin, Justin Mooers, who also had been injured several years earlier
during preparation to go to Iraq. Because I have cousins named Raymond, I
searched for a connection to our family but I could not. I filed the
obituary away with other genealogical information.

Earlier this year, I also picked up a obituary of Wayne Mooers, who died at
age 49 in Florida. The obituary said he died unexpectedly in December, 2007
and that he was formerly from Massachusetts. Again, I could not find a
connection to any Mooers in my database so I filed it away,

This week I saw an obituary of Justin K. Mooers, age 27, who died in Texas.
His obituary pointed out that he was a cousin of Army Spec. Jared Raymond
(deceased). Justin's obituary listed family members, so I pulled out Jared
Raymond's obituary and it led me in turn to Wayne Mooers' obituary. As I
re-read the three obituaries, I realized that Wayne Mooers was the brother
of Justin's mother, Kathleen Mooers. Wayne Mooers also was the father of
Jared Raymond. Wayne's parents were John R. And Patricia Mooers of Pelham, NH.

I then realized that John and Patricia Mooers had, in a little over a year,
lost a son, Wayne, and two grandsons, Justin and Jared. I was overwhelmed.
I found the telephone number for John and Patricia and telephoned their
home to express my deepest sympathies. I reached Patricia and had a long
conversation. She explained that her husband, John, is confined to a
nursing home and they have not dared to tell him of Justin's death.

Patricia further explained that as the US was prepared to invade Iraq,
Justin's tank battalion was being transported by rail and Justin was in his
tank. At some point, he stood up on top of his tank and came in contact
with a high tension wire above the tracks. The electrical charge went into
the top of his head and out his toes and he was severely burned on half his
body. He eventually lost a leg and was retired from the military. However
he did get married, to Jessica A. Holmes Mooers, herself an Air Force staff
sergeant and she was stationed at Lackland in Texas. They had a daughter,
Bailey Mooers, who, at the beginning of June, was 20 months old. Justin
laid down in June, 2008, to take a nap with Bailey and he never woke up.

Justin's wife, Jessica is pregnant with their second child, who is expected
in October.

I have to tell you, I am telling you this story with tears in my eyes.
Although I have never personally met this family, I feel the deepest
heartache for their losses. I intend to contact Jessica Holmes Mooers to
see if she will accept a small donation to help with the expenses of
Justin's children. Because of her circumstances, she has found it necessary
to resign from the military. If any of you would also like to help Jessica
and her children, please contact me.

I did learn that John R. Mooers' father's name was Arthur Mooers. I still
am unable to identify the family with others in my extensive database but I
will keep trying.

Let's all keep this family in our prayers. They have been through more than
one family should have to bear.

Who is tracking developments in your family for the next generation to carry on the tradition? Now that my parents are gone, it makes you realize all they shared with you about stories, events and family history needs to be taught to my four children. 

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