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January 15: National Hat Day, and National Strawberry Ice Cream Day.

🎩National Hat Day! Hats may be worn for safety and protection, religious reasons, ceremonial reasons, warmth or fashion. In the Middle Ages, hats were an indicator of social status. In the military, hats may denote one’s nationality, branch of service, rank and/or regiment. A Thebes tomb painting depicts one of the first pictorials of a hat. The painting shows a man wearing a conical straw hat. Structured hats for women began to be worn in the late 16th century. Millinery is the designing and manufacture of hats. The term “milliner” derived from the city of Milan, Italy. The best quality hats were made in Milan in the 18th century. Millinery began as traditionally a woman’s occupation, as the milliner not only created hats and bonnets but also chose lace, trim and accessories to complete an outfit. In the middle of the 1920s, to replace the bonnets and wide-brimmed hats, women began to wear smaller hats that hugged their heads. Depending on where you live, if you are outside in the middle of a cold January, you may definitely want to wear a hat on National Hat Day!

🍓🍦National Strawberry Ice Cream Day! ( National Ice Cream Day is celebrated on July 1). Strawberry ice cream is made by blending either strawberries or strawberry flavoring with eggs, cream, vanilla and sugar. Food coloring is often used to give it the pink or light red hue. Dating back to at least 1813, strawberry ice cream was served at the second inauguration of James Madison. Strawberry ice cream is one of the three flavors in Neapolitan ice cream along with vanilla and chocolate. Strawberry cheesecake ice cream and strawberry ripple ice cream are variations of strawberry ice cream.

As you all know I love my hats. Especially my tie dyed baseball cap and my orange camouflaged safari hat. I would rather have my strawberries on my ice cream.

Sending warm hugs! And extra strawberries for Bixby, I know how well he likes his strawberries. And extra ice cream for Gilbert.🐶🍓🍦🍓💕❄️💕