Dont forget the BWW.

I have a shovel you can borrow.

Probably a scrub answer, because I haven't shopped around for anything fancy, but my local Hannaford has Wicked Joe beans and I really like their Sumatra, I drink it daily.

They’ve been fairly quick for me in the past, between 1-2 weeks to arrive. I use the DMV in Bangor if that changes anything (Portland might have longer turnaround? I dunno)

Bangor Mall is owned by Namdar Realty group, which while also a shady commercial real estate aggregator, seems to at least be functional. For now, anyway.

Amazing! I can't wait to hear about their adventure!

In a perfect world they’d apologize and stop when asked. If that doesn’t happen, it may be easier and less stressful to remove yourself from the situation by changing motels or getting earplugs or noise cancelling headphones and a brown noise app. (Or, you know, birds and waterfalls, whatever white noise pleases you)

Depends on how small a town you’re talking. For many people up to the age of attainable automobiles, the only place close enough to go to hang out during the very few hours you weren’t working on your land was the neighbor’s. Once a week you’d hook up your horse, put on your Sunday best, and go the three-five miles to church. Every couple weeks or once a month you’d hook up your horse and wagon and ride the 10-20 miles to a bigger town to buy the things you couldn’t grow/make/mend. Once a year you might take a train to the ‘big city’ of Bangor or Portland.

It would be different if you lived IN one of the middling or larger towns, but my dad grew up near Machias in the 50s and this was his schedule until he left for college. Most farming families would have it the same.

frankly, it was mostly churches. They were often the largest building with the largest comfortable enclosed gathering space in town, so not only would they be used for church services but also dances, dinners, voting, town meetings, private parties, etc. Church wasn't the 'statement' then that it is today. You went to church because everybody else went to church, and church served an incredibly important social bonding function.

Only a little annex is open in Bangor so far! Please don't make it your reason to visit Bangor, it is a single room the size of a one-car garage with a very few exhibits and a handful of books and T shirts on sale. I am NOT hating on it (I really like it in fact) but it takes all of 5-10 minutes to go through, and I'd hate for you to get your hopes up and be disappointed. The main museum is still open in Portland but I believe will be relocating to Bangor through 2023, opening in Bangor in 2024. I'm hoping to get a job or volunteer there once it does :D

I can't guarantee they can fix your issue of course, but I've always been pleased with the service at Maine Geeks Iphone and computer repair at 849 Stillwater by the mall.

No. It sucks. Vacationland is all lies. As soon as you cross the border from Canada or New Hampshire your hair falls out and teeth recede back into your skull. Strange but true. The safest approach is via boat along the coastline but 3/4 of those that try are confronted by Nurash Yon'heldamath, who demands either your firstborn child or 37 cents, depending on the time and tides of your approach. Once you're here you cannot leave. Ever. Any friends or family who claim to have seen you after your return are being fooled by the Clones of Kitter'ee, who are slowly replacing tourists until they can rise forth as one and consume the world in a salty fog. Beware. Beware.

Agree! For the longest time I thought that’s what shepherds pie was, bless my mother but her recipe was terrible for this (though at least she did make homemade mashed for it) many years later Alton Browns shepherds pie recipe converted me and now I’m a fan.

Here's our family recipe. I'm not sure where mom learned it from but shes been making it this way since she got married in the 70s. I make it the same way, it's a pure nostalgia bomb:

1 lb box of elbow macaroni

1 lb hamburger

1 15 oz can stewed tomatoes

1 small can tomato paste

1 small can tomato sauce

Butter, salt, pepper to taste

Cook pasta according to directions. Drain and add plenty of butter, salt and pepper. Cook hamburger, Drain fat. Add all tomato products to hamburger and heat thoroughly. Mix sauce in with pasta.

We did NOT get that text and our spectrum has been out since the 23rd.

Ope, there it is, we got the text. Still no spectrum, hardy har.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H8CM4F1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

We have this one! It’s served us very well.

We have a heat pump for everyday use but a wall mounted propane heater for outages and when it gets below 10 and the heat pump struggles. It’s enough to keep our little house cozy in an outage. I also keep a gallon of water in the freezer which just acts as a huge ice cube. We don’t have a generator so I shuffle fridge food inside and outside to keep it in the cold sweet spot. One of the best things we have is a solar powered phone charger. Enough to charge us four times over, more if we let it sit in the sun. We usually take trips out for food during an outage. In general I’d say we’re very well prepared but I still absolutely hate being out in the winter. I stress.

For once I’m glad to be in the CMP section of Hancock, we were out only 24 hours.

downdetector is full of people all over the country reporting their spectrum is out. I figure, if every tree-caused power outage also knocked out the internet wires, and spectrum only has, say, a quarter of the linemen that a power company does, they're going to be busy busy busy and we might all be out for days.

My family has set up mobile hotspots using our phones and LTE through Verizon and we're chugging along well enough to watch youtube and hang out on reddit on our PCs, I recommend trying that if you're able. We're also keeping a clock starting at 4:30 on the 23rd to not pay for the days we're out of service.

We're still out in Bucksport, with no estimated restoration time.

I think its more to assess how to best spread the effort of donators. Everyone likes donating toys, so you might get-- for a very out of my ass example-- 60% of the donations as toys but only 40% as toiletries/clothing/stuff for older teens/adults while the community you serve is 30% kids and 70%teens/adults, you know? Not digging for demographic info but I think its good for everyone to know 'the toy needs have been met! Please make your future donations in the form of toiletries/clothes! Thank you!"

(Also this whole thought exercise might have nothing to do with how you guys do your drives. I just wanted to offer a perspective on where the poster above was coming from!)

Dude, either way, good choice. Hannaford hot bar is my lunch a couple times a month. I love the general Tsos chicken though I miss the southwest egg rolls!

What’ chu talkin’ bout, Willis?

Gotcha. I’m just operating off little kid memories, so I’m sure you’re right.

you can do it with maple syrup too, mom and I used to make them in the freezer when I was little. They don't hold up at room temp though so it's more a novelty.