Maine is Heaven! Maine is Hell!

 While driving the roads of Maine in search of thrift stores (garage sale season is over and I'd rather not talk about it right now, the wound is too fresh) we would often see barns and houses left to die of neglect. Slowly as if crumpled by an invisible giant hand they would start to sag in the middle as they slowly collapsed. At one time they were useful,  pride was taken in their ownership,repairs were made, and then suddenly they were left to a slow and unsightly public demise. Finding thrift stores in Maine is a time consuming business, very often they will not be listed in the search results. Many of the stores are run by a staff of elderly volunteers that either are not very computer literate or simply do not have time for such nonsense. Gradually, bit by bit, Lisa and I assembled our list of stores from newspapers, Facebook posts and from the information given to us by neighbors. We guard the list the way some old time sea captains would guard their charts. For us even dari

 Now I have a confession to make, me and my wife have had two yard sales in Maine, and yes our neighbors did know and we did not care that they did. Perhaps some of you might want to take notes as some of the information might save your lives, or at least make them somewhat easier. Once a year our town (like many others) has a town wide yard sale. Some townships only allow a certain amount of yardsales per resident per year. This is to stop people from turning their yard sales into ongoing businesses. This summer was a hot one, and the weekend that we chose to do the yard sale on was one of the hottest ones of the summer; but we decided to have it anyway and would simply close if it go too bad out. We decided to have the sale on Friday and Saturday. On Thursday we started to get everything together and priced. All of a sudden a vehicle pulls into our driveway and two men get out (now if you had read part one you would know where this is going). They started looking around at the stuff

Like shaking a box of Cracker Jacks looking for  the prize I went to the Facebook page for the Bangor Drive-In (which is located just outside of the Bangor city limits, as if it was both somewhat disreputable but needed at the same time). On Tuesdays they would announce the movies and showtimes. Each screen would have a double feature, however, sometimes on Mondays if you played around on the site they used for their online ticket sales (though it was cheaper to pay in person) you could see what was coming for the next weekend before they posted it on Facebook. However, on this Monday my search came up blank, which had happened every now and again, there was no need for panic. However, on Tuesday we received the bad news, there was a black and white image of a drive-in movie screen  on Facebook with the words "Closed for the season" on it. Though this was a disappointment we did get  bonus season time Last year the drive-in closed on October 6 after playing the latest film ve