How to find your grandmother’s cabin

We find things, sometimes, by bumping into them.

How to find your grandmother’s cabin.

1-Go toward a scenic point that a friend told you not to miss.

2-Realize halfway across Montana that this means you could go by Bottineau, North Dakota, which is not on the way to anywhere except Lake of the Woods (the scenic point).

3-Get to Bottineau half an hour before dark and find out all the motels are taken up with oil shale workers.

4-Go north to state park on Lake Metigoshe, stumble on a motel next to it. It is dark. The motel has one room left. You take it.

5-You call your aunt and find out that Grandma had a cabin on Lake Metigoshe. This is where she learned to canoe and watch birds and love nature. All qualities she passed on to you. Importantly, she gives you the subsequent names of the owners, married children and so forth.

6-Next day, you set out to find the cabin. your husband on it like a hound on a fresh scent.

7-He asks the store clerk where we can find an old-timer who knows “everything”.

8-That would be Grace at the Marina, she answers, without hesitating.

9-You go right down to Marina, you guessed it, and yep, there is Grace. Not all that old, but she does know everything.

10-Grace knows who to call, that’s the main thing. She calls another someone who knows everything, and they trace the linage to pinpoint the cabin.

11-You get careful directions from Grace.

12-You find the cabin, right on the shores of Lake Metigoshe. You feel your Grandmother's in your blood sweet young energy. The chickadees cheer.