Too Late for Seeing Leprechauns?

A few weeks back I mentioned a couple of books; one I had read and the other what I had planned on reading. I had thought when I read the publisher's synopsis this would be a good historical fiction on our first president and his first true love [before he married Martha]. I must be honest. The novel was a huge struggle to complete. The author, in my opinion turned it into a romance fantasy. She wrote more about Mary's dimples on her right cheek and then on her left cheek more times than I care to mention. Chapter after chapter the General [Washington] was thinking about and checking out her dimples!!! What does that have to do with making a book worthy of reading? Just not my style. She went into more depth of powdered wigs and secret meetings and dances, and Mary's struggles of being a woman of value to her family and self esteem than that of the general facts of historic value. A big disappointment.  Gone With the Wind it's not!!!! Sure, there was Rhett and Scarlet and the scandalous life-styles, but Mitchell at least told the story of the Civil War. 

Well, let me tell you....I was so wanting to stop reading it, and yet, I kept thinking that it's GOT to get BETTER. Sometimes I was ready to close it and just trade it in at the used book store...instead, this is what I ended up doing. When frustration set in, I took out my sketch book. It was coming up on St. Pat's Day and I thought it'd be fun to sketch a leprechaun. It's taken me a few weeks to get it done, but I'm satisfied.   While drawing, I was completely able to forget the disaster between the book covers...

Bud and I are both of Irish blood - me 1/2 Irish and Bud is something like...his British ancestors jumped the Irish picket fence once or twice. Speaking of Irish and Leprechauns...My little Irish Lass [Irene] turns FIFTY on April Fools Day

She is 18 in this photo.