The Maine Adventure

So we are on a new adventure that consists of moose, light houses, snow, and lobster. Yes we have moved to Maine.  Keith is the new Manager of the Moosehorn National Wildlife in Baring, Maine. It has been a place he has always had on his bucket list. So this is our new adventure! We have been here for almost 4 months. But we are finally settling into our new home. We spent the first months in the bunkhouse at the refuge with no Internet. Our connection to internet depended on driving to town and buying a hot chocolate or ice cream at McDonald's so we could use their free internet, So blogging was not on my top things to do in my hour of "not so Free Internet". We bought our beautiful new house in November and rushed to unpack enough for homeschooling, Isaiah's birthday, Thanksgiving and a visit from my parents. We still have boxes everywhere because I went straight from unloading boxes to decorating for Christmas. I will unpack in January. Sounds like a good New Years resolution! At the moment we are busy trying to get the garage cleared so we can park the two cars in it before we get dumped with snow.

Here is a picture of our house during the Fall Months.

  

We are absolutely loving it here!  We got to catch the tail end of summer. We enjoyed the amazing colors of Fall and now look forward to snow.... though my blood has grown thin since leaving Alaska. I forgot how cold snow was! We have explored as much as we could before cold weather shuts down most tourist attractions. We find it fun that we can just cross the border to Canada just to go eat lunch. Zambian borders never went that fast! We are enjoying the rocky coast, whales, fresh scallops and lobster(at least I am, due to keith being allergic to lobster) whoppie pies, and learning Poutine and gravy are a major things here! We have checked out rocky coast, 25 feet tide changes and lots of light houses.

Behind us here is the reversing Falls. Pretty cool that a place can have water falls no matter if the tide is coming in or going out...

Our friend and pastor Jimmy from North Carolina was having a work conference in Portland and we couldn't let him come to Maine with out us seeing him so we went for a night in Portland and got to explore a bit with him when he was here.

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Keith is loving his job, has a great staff and we love visiting his office.  While living at the bunkhouse, we explored the trails around the office and have fallen in love with the hills, rivers, lakes and streams. The refuge was established for migratory birds and woodcock. Come see us we'll show you around. 

We got to experience our first Fall up here and the colors were simply amazing! God sure knows how to paint a landscape! Fall has become my favorite time of the year. So many different colors.  I have never experienced one like it! I'll let you know how winter goes. 

My mom and dad came for a quick visit but we packed as much as we could in to the 10 days they were here. We even put them to work helping us stack wood, hang a bison and move furniture up and  down stairs, hunting for Christmas trees and unpacking boxes. The boys enjoyed the surprise when we went to pick up a "present". lots of playing happened.

Picking out a Christmas tree

Found it!

The boys were determined that they were big enough to carry it to the car

I love putting all our home made ornaments on real trees. This one went in the Dining room. As we almost have a tree in each room. Next year I will be more organized.... I hope

We took Mom and Dad down to Lubec and across to Campabello Island. It was a cold, windy day but it was beautiful!

Quoddy Head Lighthouse

Lobster Pot Christmas Trees.... Because why wouldn't you?

Welcome to Maine Ramos family.... We are so glad to be here and ready for the new adventure. I promise to keep this one updated! =)