We have been caching with mom and dad for a while now and finally placed our first cache. Now the time has come for us to place our second one and we decided to make it a puzzle. This was a true family effort. Mom and dad picked up a camo painted cache at Little Shop of Horrors. It is smaller than an Ammo box, but bigger than most small caches.
The older Lil Checker announced one day that he had a perfect name for a cache - "The Queen of the Irish". The name has nothing at all to do with the cache; it's just his name of the moment. Since the older checker provided the name, it was up to the younger checker to provide the puzzle. When asked for his input, he looked up from his coloring, got a strange look on his face, and then for the 1000th time, start singing a song he learned in Preschool. It is sung to the tune of "I've been working on the railroad" and is quite contagious. After hearing him sing it yet again, we knew exactly where to hide it.
Here is his song:
Dad wanted there to be more than one way to solve this so it is his fault this has been in place for about 6 months before being published. He says he thinks both the difficulty and terrain are overrated, but mom thinks it is difficult.
After this was approved, we experienced some issues with different browsers displaying colors diffently. They were fixed, but the deprecation of the the html tags this was originally written with caused formatting problems. So an image has been added. The original source code has been retained. You should see pink, brown, orange, black, green, red, yellow, and blue text on a cyan background. Thank you to Kablooey and UncleTom for identifying our typo.
09/13/2010 We have not changed the puzzle. Contrary to the puzzle, it is no longer a nut jar. We replaced the cache in the original location with a screw top zip lock container covered with black tape.