HOUSTON, Minn. –  The magic of the Emerald Isle returned home with the Beckman family on Highway 16 after a  vacation to Ireland. The oak tree at their driveway now erupts in shamrocks ahead of St Paddy’s Day. Mike’s jigsaw and Kelly’s paintbrush, they admit, may factor into the magic.

Magic? Or is it that the world’s best numerologists are Irish. Seventeen shamrocks hang from the Beckman oak. So tell us, what is the date of Ireland’s patron saint? The 17th of March, right. Numbers don’t lie.