Are people really surprised about this? It's not a new phenomenon. People have been summering in Maine for over 100 years. Second Maine summer homes are not the cause of the housing issue? Sorry are locals buying the 2 million dollar ocean front estates? I don't think so. I'm as mad about housing as anyone but this isn't the problem.

All set here. On to the next one.

Have power but have to make an early morning emergency run to the Husqvarna dealer. The traction belt on my snowblower snapped after the first pass so the blower is sitting out in the driveway. Looking forward to doing a belt change out in the driveway

It happens. I’m 62 and I remember when a few years back when they refused to deliver oil because we forgot to make a path. We made a mad dash to shovel through a foot of snow and make a car lengths path. They were coming back. 🤦🏽‍♀️. We didn’t forget again!

Definitely taking a while to assess.

Nope.

Gas stove and a French press means I always have coffee ;)

Wow that sounds amazing!

I agree, but that term is used in part to make kelp products more accessible to consumers who haven’t had it before. No one wants to eat “algae”.

Sea lettuce, Irish moss, nori - those names all allude to plants. In part because we thought they actually were plants/vegetables, but I think the names haven’t been supplanted (pun intended) by the industry because many consumers without a science background would still assume they are plants and be more likely to try them.

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Very cool.

That was the first comment I got when I showed it to friends, lol. What do you think of the rest of it?

Cape Hart is already a combat zone

Another thing, if you don’t have zone heating, you can manually block off parts of your house if you don’t use them. Before we had kids, my wife and I used to sleep down in the living room all winter by the wood stove and blocked off the upstairs (nothing but three bedrooms up there) with an insulated panel. Slashed our heating by over half.

https://www.maine.gov/energy/heating-fuel-prices

All other things aside, it all comes down to cost per BTU, and cordwood is consistently the cheapest, often by far. It will likely remain so especially with electric rates going up. It’s a little work (handling, etc) but a wood stove is the cheapest heat in Maine. I live in a fairly small house (1300 sq ft) in Aroostook and burn about 3 cord a year at ~130 a cord (I buy tree length and process it myself, I consider it to be a gym membership that pays me). It’s dirt cheap, dries the house out and nice to look at. I have oil heat mostly for shoulder seasons or to keep the house from freezing if I’m away. Less than half a tank of oil most winters.

I prefer it as fertilizer to grow my real vegetables

Those who need captions do have disabilities (e.g., deaf/hard of hearing, autism). And many of those do not like closed caption equipment for multiple reasons.

Shit. It's midnight and you just made me realize where I plowed my snow is a bit troublesome for oil. I was trying to widen my driveway and went "aah that back corner is perfect"

I'm in my 30s. I should know much better. My brain went somewhere else today. Thanks for jogging the thought I'm playing with my snowblower tomorrow.

My old man was a fire fighter for years and he always advocated shoveling a path around the entire house at least as wide as 3 or 4 shovel widths. He had a story (true or not) about an emergency that got much worse because they couldn't access the rear of the building due to snow.

Maybe some fire fighter somewhere will tell me otherwise. My father is a piece of shit and a notorious bullshit artist. But it at least passes the sniff test and years later I continue shoveling around my property.

Don’t like is not a valid reason.

Disability are.

He's in af 8 and ouf at 2:45

Really? Most 10yos are in school 8:30-3, and with bussing it’s minimum 8-3:30

Best chicken salad I’ve ever had.

And if you’re not interested in subbing, maybe try food service or custodial. There are LOTS of mothers hours jobs in school districts.

Love it when prepared correctly! Visited a farm on the Damariscotta river a few years back which was cool! I got to try somebody’s dried sugar kelp where they flavored the kelp with dried fruit like oranges and it was so good I couldn’t stop eating it. I haven’t been able to find a similar food and haven’t much enjoyed other forms of seaweed since then, but seaweed can be found in other products like toothpaste and shampoo, so the industry isn’t just for eating. Overall, I think the industry is incredibly interesting and fostering kelp at farms also helps reduce carbon emissions!

I can't speak to RAC but I managed an Aaron's location for a while and it's horrendous how much debt customers go into for items.

We would sell them items between 200% to 1000% over MSRP. It would start as an emergency and then the company did everything to upsell them or trap them in the system. They'd also hold contests to award customers who had the most items and the highest payments. Fucking. There was a payday advance loan place in our parking lot. We spent so much time doing collections.

They'd also have us talk to customers about how our payments are monthly vs weekly or x% or customers more get to ownership over RAC customers. Like cool there's less fees and more people get to owning a hyper inflated item?

They also are almost certainly straight up bullshitting customers with the "rebuild credit" lie. Only reporting to 1 agency.

Avoid them like the plague like this guy says. If they're like Aaron's they abuse customers and employees alike and suck people dry. If you can try to find alternatives on fb marketplace or maybe from friends and family.

As for finding WFH work OP check either LinkedIn or Ratracerebellion