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**grinaJanoDant** · 12-06-2005, 07:00 AM

If you can deal with winter, than it is not so bad. I worked at Sugarloaf a few seasons and learned to snowboard there. I loved working on the mountain! Unfortunately I injured myself doing that so I stick to crosscountry skiing now. I also enjoy snowmobiling and ice fishing with the right company. And sledding! Man, there was a hill in Kingfield that we would go to at night, "screamin' right out of 'er", and we'd bounce off the jumps we couldn't see and never felt until the next day. I love ice skating, too, although confess to being graceless on skates. As kids we played hockey in the winter and built huge snowforts, staging mock battles. We also had a small hill by the house which we would spritz with water to make a rock hard run. That little hill would take you quite a ways.

Each season has it's best moments. I am thinking about spring now, and really, my favorite spring place: the local cemetary. There is a pink flower that carpets the cemetary at the start of things growing again. It makes it the most beautiful spot in town.

YANKEE WORK ETHIC--AMAZING
Talk about jobs! I waited tables in York Beach and washed dishes in a swanky Boothbay Harbor establishment. For the same restaurant, I wore a giant red lobster costume and threw candy during the 4th of July parade. I raked blueberries for 2 summers, but really hated getting up so early and doing that. Tipping, the process by which we get the material for Christmas wreaths, is my fave seasonal job (if I had to do it.) Being in the woods in the fall is the best. I also worked at a wreath factory one lean college year. That was a terrible job. My very first Yankee job was picking rocks out of gardens for a dollar an hour. I was ten. I weeded gardens for a few summers. I babysat lots of children whose parents I met while working at the resorts. I

Even now, I am a teacher with great vacations, but I can't go for more than a week without doing something labor intensive. Last summer I picked beans for 50 cents a pound. Crazy!

12-06-2005, 07:00 AM	#2
grinaJanoDant Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 533 Senior Member	If you can deal with winter, than it is not so bad. I worked at Sugarloaf a few seasons and learned to snowboard there. I loved working on the mountain! Unfortunately I injured myself doing that so I stick to crosscountry skiing now. I also enjoy snowmobiling and ice fishing with the right company. And sledding! Man, there was a hill in Kingfield that we would go to at night, "screamin' right out of 'er", and we'd bounce off the jumps we couldn't see and never felt until the next day. I love ice skating, too, although confess to being graceless on skates. As kids we played hockey in the winter and built huge snowforts, staging mock battles. We also had a small hill by the house which we would spritz with water to make a rock hard run. That little hill would take you quite a ways. Each season has it's best moments. I am thinking about spring now, and really, my favorite spring place: the local cemetary. There is a pink flower that carpets the cemetary at the start of things growing again. It makes it the most beautiful spot in town. YANKEE WORK ETHIC--AMAZING Talk about jobs! I waited tables in York Beach and washed dishes in a swanky Boothbay Harbor establishment. For the same restaurant, I wore a giant red lobster costume and threw candy during the 4th of July parade. I raked blueberries for 2 summers, but really hated getting up so early and doing that. Tipping, the process by which we get the material for Christmas wreaths, is my fave seasonal job (if I had to do it.) Being in the woods in the fall is the best. I also worked at a wreath factory one lean college year. That was a terrible job. My very first Yankee job was picking rocks out of gardens for a dollar an hour. I was ten. I weeded gardens for a few summers. I babysat lots of children whose parents I met while working at the resorts. I Even now, I am a teacher with great vacations, but I can't go for more than a week without doing something labor intensive. Last summer I picked beans for 50 cents a pound. Crazy!
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