In Maine, how do they pick blueberries, catch lobsters and what does "Wicket" mean?

Question

In Maine, why do some of the beaches have only small rocks and no sand. What are the strange lights you see in the night sky in Fall and why are the Granger meetings secret unless you are a member?

Answer 1

Well, the people in Maine pick blueberries with water by flooding the field...by doing that the blueberries will float eventually...then about the lobsters, they catch them in a pot......and a wicket means two things.....either it is a small door or gate, espescially one built into or near a larger one.....or if it is about sports topic, it is a kind of objective.....and if you asks about those the strange lights that you can see in Fall, they are the aurora borilias (the northern lights) that appears at the northern part of the world at the sky (if you can see one of those, they were really nice)..........and about the granger meeting, it is a meeting for the AA (alcoholic anonymous) people......that is a meeting a group of people that helps each other on their problem of alcoholism....they keep it a secret because of a simple reason- they dont want people to know that they were alcohol addicts coz you see..they were afraid on what will people think if they knew of their alcoholism.....so they prefer to be anonymous to the public unless you were a member.....
So thats it......i hope that i am able to help you with my simple answer ^_^......im always here to advise you....and if you wanna know more things about your query, you can ask or use the internet......thanks anyway for your compliment to me last time...

Answer 2

A few of my friends in high school used to pick blueberries and if I remember correctly they used rakes and got paid by the pint (or bucket? not sure). At any rate some schools will excuse students to pick blueberries since the season is late summer/early fall. (Schools do the same thing with potato harvest)

Lobsters are caught in wooden and net traps that sit on the ocean floor. The lobster can crawl in but the shape of the trap makes it difficult to climb out again. The lobstermen attach the traps to bouys that float on the surface so the they know where to pick up the traps.

It's actually Wicked - that's just the maine accent at work. It means "very" (or any other word used to denote an extremity). "That's Wicked Good" is really like saying "That's Very Good" (or Amazingly Good or Exceptionally Good, etc)

Answer 3

There are two methods of picking blueberries, in Maine or anywhere else. The first is to hire pickers, who hand pick the berries. The second is to use a mechanical picker, which sweeps and vacuums the berries off of the bushes.
Lobsters are caught in a trap that looks something like an elongated crab trap, but the opening is at the end so the lobster can walk in but can't walk out.
Wicket is one set of three stumps (they look like sticks) and two balls, used in cricket. The bowler (like a pitcher) tries to knock the peg off of the stumps, where it is balanced, and the batter is protecting the peg and stumps -- that is, he is defending his wicket.
The phrase 'sticky wicket' comes from cricket. Sometimes a peg seems so firmly fixed on top of the stumps that nothing will take it down, and it seems as though it is held there by glue, or something equally sticky.
Going against a sticky wicket means trying to succeed at something that is proving to be difficult.

Answer 4

I think it varies by age. You don't say how old your child is, and what I would think about what you are doing would be vastly different if your child is 1 week old versus if he is 10 months old. I think that if your child is under 3 months, you should go to him immediately when he starts crying. That is how infants begin to learn trust. On the other hand, if your child is older, and obviously sleepy (e.g. falling asleep as soon as you hold him but waking up the moment you put him down) then letting him cry for a few minutes to see if he will go to sleep isn't a problem. I think letting your child scream for two hours is excessive no matter his age because if he has had his leg stuck in crib rails, or there is some other serious problem, you would feel like complete crap when you finally went in. I think Dr. Ferber's book Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems, is the best on the proper way to do the cry-it-out method. When my 1st son was 8 months old, he started waking up in the middle of the night after having been sleeping through the night for months. I used Dr. Ferber's method, and in a week he was back to sleeping throught the night with no problems, and at 2 1/2, he is still a good sleeper.

Answer 5

One picks blueberries by walking into a thicket and plucking the ripe berries with the outstretched fingers and placing same in a bowl or bucket.
Lobsters are caught in lobster nets by lobster-men.
Don't know what a Wicket is.

Answer 6

I don't know how they are picked in Maine, but in Australia at the Blueberry farm at Gosford in NSW, you can pick them yourself. They are on shrub like trees that are about four feet high and you pick them like little apples. One at a time and as many as you can to a handful without squashing them.

Lobsters are caught commercially in lobster pots with a bait inside. Like a big wire box with only one little hole to get in to the bait.
You can dive for them if you don't use skuba tanks.. Their antennii stickout of the hole they are hiding in in the rocks and you can reach in and grab them and pull them out.
In cricket, the "wicket" is three wooden pegs in the ground about three inches apart and three feet high, that the bowler trys to hit with a ball.
It is also a small gate or door.

Answer 7

I'm seeing people out in fields bending down to pick the low bush blueberries. There are high bush ones that are easier to pick.
http://www.ehow.com/how_8302_harvest-store-blueberries.html
Catching lobsters requires a license, lobster traps and a boat.
http://www.state.me.us/dmr/lobsteringguide.htm
I'm guessing that you mean "wicked" like another answer said. Mainers use wicked to describe things, like I have a wicked headache.
http://webpages.charter.net/lorilady/glossary.html

Answer 8

Wicket is a cricket and croquet term.

I expect they pick blueberries and catch lobsters like anyone else does.

What an odd question.

Answer 9

It's wicked, not wicket. You know...as in....Lobster is wicked good. Or...the Yankees wicked $uck.

Answer 10

With their hands, in traps, and I think you may mean "Wicked," an exclamation often used to modify another word, ie. "I have a wicked painful headache."