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October 27th: National American Beer Day, Navy Day, National Black Cat Day, and National Make A Difference Day.

🍺National American Beer Day! There are more than 2,100 breweries that manufacture beer in the United States. They range in size from industry giants to brewpubs and microbreweries. The U.S. produced 196 million barrels of beer in 2009. The U.S. consumes roughly 20 US gallons of beer per capita annually. In 2008, the United States was ranked sixteenth in the world in per capita consumption, while total consumption was second only to China. Prohibition in the early twentieth century caused nearly all American breweries to close. After prohibition was repealed the industry had consolidated into a small number of large-scale breweries. The majority of the new breweries in the U.S. are small breweries and brewpubs, who, as members of the Brewers Association, are termed “craft breweries” to differentiate them from the larger and older breweries. The most common style of beer produced by the big breweries is American lager. Most of the smaller breweries, which were founded in the 1980s, produce a range of styles. Beer styles originating in the United States include: American pale ale, Pennsylvania porter, American IPA, steam beer, amber ale, cream ale and Cascadian dark ale.

🇺🇸Navy Day! Is a day to salute all of the women and men who have served, both past and present, in the United States Navy. The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is currently the largest, most powerful navy in the world, with the highest combined battle fleet tonnage. The service has over 340,000 personnel on active duty and more than 71,000 in the Navy Reserve. The Navy League of the United States organized the first Navy Day in 1922. October 27 was chosen as the date because it was the birthday of President Theodore Roosevelt. This is also the anniversary of a 1775 report issued by a special committee of the Continental Congress favoring the purchase of merchant ships as the foundation of an American Navy. President Roosevelt had been an Assistant Secretary of the Navy and supported a strong Navy as well as the idea of Navy Day. In 1949, Department of Defense Secretary, Louis A. Johnson, directed that the United States Navy’s participation occur on Armed Forces Day in May, although, as a civilian organization, the Navy League was not affected by this directive and continued to organize Navy Day celebrations as before. It was then in the 1970s that the “birthday” of the Continental Navy was found to be October 13, 1775, and CNO Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt worked with the Navy League to define October 13 as the new date of Navy Day; however, Navy Day in the United States remains largely recognized as October 27.

🐈National Black Cat Day, is all about celebrating the beauty of these sleek creatures. These felines deserve the love and attention just as much as their tabby counterparts. Old notions have given these furry critters a bad reputation. National Black Cat Day is about turning that reputation around. Cats Protection, an animal charity in the United Kingdom, founded National Black Cat Day to raise awareness concerning the lower rates of adoption for black cats.

National Make A Difference Day! USA Weekend is a national weekend newspaper magazine which is distributed through more than 800 newspapers in the United States and published by Gannett Company as a sister publication to USA Today. USA Weekend’s focus is on social issues, entertainment, health, food and travel. USA Weekend, along with Points of Light, have been sponsoring National Make a Difference Day. National Make a Difference Day was created in 1992 by USA WEEKEND magazine and joined by Points of Light. Together they have sponsored the largest national day of community service for more than twenty years.

Cheers to all you beer drinkers. Please drink responsibly. Happy birthday Navy. I happen to like black kitties. I think their pretty. If I could have a kitty I'd want a black one. But I want my Corgi first. Our local TV station gives an award every month to one local person who makes a difference in their community. They've done this for years.

You will be surprise in the size of the air fryers, I know I was. I thought they would be smaller. Boy what a shock I got and I only got the 3.8 one. The 5.8's must be huge.😊

Some of the post's are easy. Like the ones I don't have to do much to. Then there's the ones I have to edit. How many ways can one piece of info be said differently. Apparently several as I've found out. Then there's the U.S. state days, trying to decide what to put in and leave out and try not to make it overly long but still interesting. It may a chore sometimes but I like doing it.

Sending hugs!🐶💕🍂💕