SPRING Begins

**ChildhoodDream** · 05-02-2023, 04:02 AM

Spring is trying to work it's way in this year. The weather has been up and down, but 've been getting outside here and there.

TIME TRAVEL is what life is about simply put.

Now the type of TIME MACHINE you have is the difference.

Mine looks much like a time capsule of a salvage/junkyard.

Works for me, myself and I,

the 3 of us get more done then you can shake a stick at.

**hills** · 05-02-2023, 08:49 AM

Just livin' the dream here. It's a pretty good quality of life on the island. Spring has sprung and everything is coming to life again. Lots more scrapping opportunities these days so it's time to shift the machine into high gear and get er' done. Sixty to sixty five hour work weeks are about the norm this time of year. You work hard in the spring,summer, and fall to put up enough to carry you through the following winter. You live by the seasons.

It's a lot like the way my grandfather's generation lived back in the late 1800's - early 1900's. You do it a little differently in this modern world but the basic idea is still the same. Reminds me of the fable they taught us back in grade school about the grasshopper and the ant.

https://www.umass.edu/aesop/content.php?n=0&i=1

**mikeinreco** · 05-02-2023, 06:59 PM

I think there might have been one week out of the year I wasn't able to get outside and work this last year.... definitely different here we work outside year round

**hills** · 05-03-2023, 04:14 AM

I generally used to figure on shutting down my outside construction jobs by January 1st. because the working conditions were so adverse. The coldest day we had this past winter was 35 deg. below zero with the wind chill. The snow is even worse though. It's nearly impossible to get anything done when everything is buried in two feet of snow. You spend four hours shoveling just to do an hour's worth of work.

About the only good thing is that the winters here are a lot milder than they were back in my grandfather's day.

I think you guys get the heat though ... don't you ?

Being a cold weather dog ... i start to lose interest in work when the thermometer hits 80 deg. I get heat beat & irritable. Sunny and in the 50's is about ideal working conditions in this neck of the woods.

**mikeinreco** · 05-03-2023, 04:24 AM

It will be in the 90s for at least a month or two....I try to work in the morning a bit and then in the evening avoiding the middle part of the day....gonna take me a trip up the north east coast as I've never been further north than Baltimore....give me some sights I should see up that way

**mikeinreco** · 05-03-2023, 04:26 AM

https://www.weather.gov/mrx/tysclimate

**hills** · 05-04-2023, 04:53 AM

All interesting stuff Mike. You guys do get some winter weather then. My oldest son moved down to Myrtle Beach about 15 years ago. He's pretty happy with it. The winters are easier there. A life here in Maine just wasn't for him.

I used to split my work days when i was doing roofing work in the summer. It gets pretty hot up there by 11:00 am so you bail out and come back after 3:00 in the afternoon and work into the evening. I wish i could do that with my current job but we have fixed hours of operation. It's a large open area that runs about 10 deg. cooler in the winter and 10 deg. hotter in the summer. Some days i'll go into work a few hours early (5:00am) just to get the manual labor done and then hole up inside for the rest of the day. It helps to stay out of the direct sun and drink lots of water.

It's hard to recommend any one particular thing to see because i don't get off island much. It's easy enough to do because there's a causeway over to the mainland but i just don't have the desire to travel anywhere in particular. I grew up just outside of Boston but knew from a pretty early age that i wanted to move here some day. It's my family's heritage and the only place that ever felt like home.

If you do get this far North ... try taking Route 1 up the coast from Southern Maine to the Bar Harbor area. It's kinda touristy and heavy with traffic in the summer but there's lots of natural beauty along the way. (You get the amenities on rt.1.) If you want to see the real Maine head inland into the Western & Northern parts of the state that haven't been touched by development just yet. Any of the State or National parks are pretty good places to visit too.