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Adults, step away from the computer. You can update your MySpace page later. Go fetch the kids, it's time for another visit to Ol' Uncle Bloggy's Story Wigwam.

Once upon a time, there was this little leprechaun fella. His name was...I don't know, let's say Ted. Now Ted the Leprechaun was suffering a streak of fierce bad luck. He'd lost his pot of gold in a card game with a fairy and so lived in a shabby little cottage. I mean this place was a dump. I've seen nicer outhouses. If you don't know what an outhouse is, go ask grandpa. We'll wait. Bring Uncle Bloggy a beer on your way back. Anyway, so Ted, as we've established, was down on his leprechaun luck and lived in a shack. In the winter, cold winds blew in the rotted, broken old windows and chilled Ted to his bones. In the summer, all kinds of flies and mosquitoes and wasps would fly in those same crappy windows and torment poor Ted to the point of insanity. One day, on his way to the hardware store to buy more caulk to to stuff into his gaping windows, he met another leprechaun named...um...Susan. Says she "how's the craic, Ted boy?" and Ted of course, feeling sorry for himself tells her all about his hard luck, making her instantly wish she hadn't asked at all. "Look, Ted, don't be such an eejit. Stop in here next to the hardware and have these Andersen fellas come out and put new windows in yer auld shack. And would ye ever go 'way with yer whinin' and moaning." So Ted did just that, he got his new windows and felt good about it too, when he found out that Andersen was an Irish Fest sponsor and sure don't we all love the Irish Fest. And Ted got his pot of gold back probably, he and Susan got married, happily ever, blah blah blah, whatever. The end.

Now look here, kids. There's a picture of Ted looking into his new cottage windows on the Irish Fest website. Download it, print it, color it and bring it with you to the Kansas City Irish Fest next weekend. Take it to the Andersen tent and get a prize. You'll also find a picture where you can draw your own Irish view through Ted's window. That will get you a prize too, when you deliver it to the Andersen tent at Irish Fest.

Off you go now. Work on your pictures while Uncle Bloggy takes a little nap. You kids wear me out.