Farms in Maine aren't quite the deal they used to be.
About ten years ago I had the opportunity to buy a 150 acre place in Maine only fifteen miles from my place on the lake here (I'm sitting on my dock as I write this) in Maine. 60 acres was hayfield and the rest was wooded that hadn't been cut in eighty years. It had a pond of about two acres and two trout streams.
The house was an oversize cape with all new wiring, new plumbing, a new roof, and new hardwood floors throughout. The barn was 60' x 90'.
The price was only $135K.
I wanted to make the leap but apparently I was alone in this...
That was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, never to be revisited.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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