If you still have both your parents, enjoy them but my Maine Mom and Dad are now in my memory and heart only. I miss them being here on Earth. But they both prepared the four boys in their family for the acceptance of death as a part of life. I still feel their presence, [...]
If you worked at an over the road big truck company, building a better vehicle that sold more units would be the goal. To get that better truck designed, built you had best be very curious. Asking the truck drivers who live in those 18 wheelers what they like. What they don’t. About the rig [...]
When you settle a Maine estate and have to go through the house hold items of a loved one passed away, the small things are the most valuable. The items you remember as a kid that in a garage sale would be pretty valueless. Passed over or not fetching much of a price. I remember [...]
My dad was a Maine potato farmer and instead of just growing his own for market, he bought potatoes from others too and was a spud broker. It seemed logical to buy a trailer truck to haul them to market too. Usually in Boston, Hartford, New York City. The first trailer was a 1957 Trailmobile. [...]
As a kid helping out, growing up on a Maine farm, alcohol was not preached as evil. Wasn’t prevalent or part of the childhood. Maybe it was because my Dad’s brother, Uncle Bud was a professional alcoholic. Had eight wonderful kids, but only stopped drinking when he stopped breathing, was dead. Maybe that is why [...]
Slow Dowh To Live The Good Life In Maine. Around Maine, most folks would consider spoiling a child the worse abuse you could lavish on your sons or daughters. Worse than neglect of that child. When money is in shorter supply, better impulse control with that money comes in to play. Kids watching a Maine [...]
Maine..Nothing Taken For Granted, Everything Appreciated, Respected, And We Were Grateful Growing Up With What We Had.
Everything I apply to life I learned in the Maine potato field. Sort of. Seriously, you start each morning, listening to the radio to see what time the farmer is going to dig today. A little frost or rain over night means a delay, or no [...]
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