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October 6th: National Orange Wine Day, National Plus Size Appreciation Day, National Mad Hatter Day, National German-American Day, and National Noodle Day. Pic 1

🍊🍷National Orange Wine Day takes a bold sip of an ancient method of winemaking! This little-known style of wine shines with its bold flavor and auburn color. Originally made nearly 6,000 years ago in Eastern Europe, the technique for making orange wine is being rediscovered. Surprisingly, winemakers do not add oranges to the wine at all. Unlike the latest beer trends, the wine comes by its color naturally. Fermented from white wine grapes, the orange wine develops through more skin contact during the fermentation process. Makers treat the white grapes like red grapes preserving the bolder body and tannins. As a result, the ordinarily white wine will deepen into a brandy orange color. Despite the wine’s obscurity, orange wine makes appearances at wine shows. Vineyards display their orange efforts from the United States to Australia. The Real House WineOrange Wine founded National Orange Wine Day on October 6, 2018, to bring awareness to the public about this beautiful yet lesser known style of wine.

Extraordinary beauty comes in all size packages. National Plus Size Day recognizes the gorgeous men and women who may be larger but are also larger than life in so many ways! Stereotypes could fill this page to describe plus size men and women, but then we have to consider that more than half the U.S. population is plus sized. That means big and tall, full-bodied and robust persons fill roles that require well-rounded and amply skilled people. With this talent pool comes buying power some retailers have yet to appreciate. National Plus Size Appreciation Day recognizes the talent and elegance of our plus size population. When it comes to being bigger, taller or curvier, put your best self forward. Show your style, flair and gorgeous self! Women Rock, Inc. founded National Plus Size Appreciation Day to boost the confidence for many women and men around the world. Founded in 2016 Women Rock INC are on a mission of self-love despite societies stigma on how we are supposed to look.

🎩National Mad Hatter Day! The fictional character, The Hatter (also known as The Mad Hatter) from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is typically acting silly, and that is how the creators of this day decided on their theme of silliness for National Mad Hatter Day. Sir John Tenniel illustrated The Mad Hatter and all of Lewis Carroll’s colorful characters beginning in 1864. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865. The phrase “mad as a hatter” comes from the late 18th and early 19th centuries when haberdasheries used mercury nitrate in their hats. The exposure to this metal over time caused the tradesmen to develop symptoms making people believe they were mad. Taking our inspiration from The Mad Hatter (or any of Carroll’s characters for that matter) we may pursue laughable, absurd or even confusing adventures on National Mad Hatter Day. Breakout from the usual routine. Ask ridiculous riddles much like The Hatter’s own, “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” Play croquet with plastic pink flamingos or wear a funny hat to work. Celebrate the day with silliness! Did you know? Lewis Carroll (a pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodson once answered The Hatter’s riddle. In the 1896 edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Carroll wrote as part of his preface, “Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!" A group of computer technicians in Boulder, Colorado first celebrated Mad Hatter Day in 1986 as a day of silliness. October 6 was chosen due to the label tucked in the Mad Hatter’s hat band that read “In this style 10/6”.

🇩🇪🇺🇸National German-American Day! This German-American heritage holiday commemorates the 13 German Mennonite families from Krefeld who landed in Philadelphia. These families founded Germantown, Pennsylvania on October 6, 1683. The settlement was the first German establishment in the original thirteen American colonies. National German-American Day was originally celebrated in the nineteenth century. However, it fell out of favor during World War I. Then in the 1980s things began to change. As is tradition, President Ronald Reagan made his world tour in 1982, which included West Germany. In the midst of a cold war and a divided Germany, the newly elected U.S. President, on June 9, 1982, opened his speech to the people of Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany by relating the history of the 13 German families who founded a colony on American soil. He spoke of contributions, advancement, science and art and the honor to celebrate the German heritage that more than 7 million Americans claim. To honor the 300th anniversary of German-American immigration and culture into the United States, in 1983 President Ronald Reagan proclaimed October 6 as German-American Day. It was on August 6, 1987, that Congress approved S.I. Resolution 108, designating October 6, 1987, as German-American Day, and it became Public Law 100-104 when President Reagan signed it on August 18. Proclamation #5719 was issued on October 2, 1987, at this time the President called on Americans to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. It has been commemorated each year since with Presidential Proclamations.

🍜🍝Noodles come in many varieties, and National Noodle Day, recognizes them all. The word noodle derives from the German word nudel. Noodles are made by rolling unleavened dough out and cutting into a variety of shapes. While long, flat noodles may seem to be the most common, they come in a variety of forms, names, and textures. Each kind of noodle will pair differently with different kinds of sauces and meals. Found in regions all over the world, noodles are made from a variety of flours. In Asian cuisine, root vegetables, such as yams and potatoes, beans, rice, wheat, and buckwheat are all found in a wide assortment of noodles. Europeans make most of their pasta from durum or semolina flour, though potato noodles a enjoyed as well. In 2002, archaeologists along the Yellow River in China found an earthenware bowl containing some 4000-year-old noodles which had been well preserved.

I've never been excited about doing laundry before. However I mite be after two weeks without doing laundry. I don't know if I have two weeks worth of some garments.

I'd love to seen you trying to dry Gilberts paws. Did you feel like you were doing yoga?

I never heard of orange🍊 wine🍷 but I have had strawberry🍓 wine. It's not bad. Plus sizes that's me. I wear a hat🎩 if I'm going to be outside, otherwise my head sunburns and I've went mad yet. I Think! Yay it's my day, I am of German descent. Another of my favorite foods, noodles😋. Any noodle will do. Yum!

Sending hugs with yummy😋 noodles on the side. Better get them before Bixby and Gilbert gets a whiff of them.😃🐶🐶💕🍂💕