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Oh, sweet lady bug no more pouts your cute too. But could you tell your relatives to call first before they barge into my home.🐞☎️🏡

October 13th: I Love Yarn Day, National Train Your Brain Day, National Yorkshire Pudding Day, Navy Birthday, Nationa No Bra Day, National Chess Day, National Costume Swap Day, and National Motorcycle Ride Day.

I Love Yarn Day embraces the opportunity to share your craft with someone new. Teach someone to knit, crochet, weave or enjoy any yarn craft. Explore the variety of yarns, their vibrant colors, their soft textures and warm tones. Expose your stash to the daylight and break out the scissors. Needles optional! Yarn Bombing is creatively covering objects with knitted or crocheted material in an artistic manner. Crochet uses a hooked needle to loop strands of threads together to make garments or artwork. Knitting creates multiple loops of yarn together using two needles. The loops or stitches develop fabrics for sweaters, blankets and other materials. Weaving creates textiles by interlacing threads at right angles. String art creates an image by stringing yarn or string between pins placed on a surface. The concepts can be geometric, abstract or representational. Doll making uses yarn to create soft dolls and animals by wrapping yarn and shaping fiber, using pom poms made from yarn and trimming it to form features. Needlepoint uses yarn by placing colored knots and crosses in fabric or canvas to create an image or pattern. The Craft Yarn Council founded I Love Yard day in 2011 spreading the love of yarn crafts for generations to come. The Craft Yarn Council is a nonprofit comprised of leading yarn companies, manufacturers, publishers, and consultants in the yarn industry.

National Train Your Brain Day! This day was created to encourage everyone to expand and exercise their brain and use more of its potential capacity. There are many different ways to train your mind and improve your cognitive skills such as reading, word puzzles, number games, brain teasers, trivia games, riddles and word games. Learning something new is another practice that is a benefit to everyone’s brain on National Train Your Brain Day (as well as any other day). When the question is asked to American scientists as to how much of the brain is used, the answer varies. However, many of them believe that it is only a small percentage and that there is room for expanded learning and knowledge within everyone.

National Yorkshire Pudding Day! Not to be confused with a dessert, Yorkshire Pudding is a traditional English dish similar to a popover made from a batter and usually served with roast meat and gravy. Cooks in the north of England devised a means of making use of the fat that dropped into the dripping pans to cook a batter pudding while the meat roasted in the oven. A recipe for “A Dripping Pudding” was published in 1737 in The Whole Duty of a Woman. (Make a good batter as for pancakes: put in a hot toss-pan over the fire with a bit of butter to fry the bottom a little then put the pan and butter under a shoulder of mutton, instead of a dripping-pan, keeping frequently shaking it by the handle and it will be light and savoury, and fit to take up when your mutton is enough; then turn it in a dish and serve it hot. ~ From The Whole Duty of a Woman.) In 1747, similar instructions were published in The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse under the title of ‘Yorkshire Pudding’. It was Glasse that re-invented and renamed the original version of ‘A Dripping Pudding”.

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. On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the first American naval force. Thus began the long and prestigious heritage of the United States Navy. Between 1922 and 1972, the Navy’s birthday was celebrated on October 27th, the date of Theodore Roosevelt’s birth. Designated by the Navy League of the United States for Roosevelt’s foresight and vision in elevating the U.S. Navy into a premier force, the celebration of the Navy’s birthday has always been one of pride. The change to October 13 was seen as a more relevant date in line with the first official action legislating a navy. Since 1972, October 13 has been the officially recognized date of U.S. Navy’s birth.

National No Bra Day is meant to promote breast cancer awareness and to help raise money for research. Many women who have survived breast cancer are unable to go without a bra as they need it to hold their prosthesis after surgery. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and National No Bra Day should serve as a reminder for all women to be screened for breast cancer.

National Chess Day! Chess is a strategic game between two competitors played on a checkered board containing 64 squares. Each player makes moves with 16 pieces each. The objected of the game is to capture the opponent’s king through a series of strategic moves. When a king is captured, the game ends with checkmate. The origins of chess are uncertain, but modern chess gained popularity during the Renaissance in Europe. National Chess Day was declared by President Ford on October 9th, 1976 as part of the nation’s bicentennial celebration. Our founding fathers played chess, including George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. Franklin was exceptionally skilled and wrote one of the earliest books on chess.

National Costume Swap Day! Homemade costumes may be a rarity these days but finding a unique and quality get up can still be achieved. By swapping with family and friends, making alterations and adding a few bits of your own genius, your kids can have a new costume. You’ll save money, and their old costumes go to good use, too! Costume Swap Day started in 2010 with GreenHalloween.org.

🏍National Motorcycle Ride Day. This day is designated to get all motorcyclists in the USA and the world out and on their motorcycles for a united day of riding, fun, relieve some stress and really enjoy the thrills and freedom that riding a motorcycle offers. The month of October is significant not only because this is toward the end of the riding season for a lot of motorcyclists in the USA, but it is also the month that John B. Dunlop developed the first practical pneumatic tire in 1887. Without this development in tire technology motorcycles would not perform as they do or be as enjoyable as they are today. This day is also dedicated to John B. Dunlop and his invention of the first practical pneumatic tire. National Motorcycle Ride Day was submitted in August 2015 by Chad Geer of Dunlop Tire N.A.

That pic with the granny square afghan is mine, my favorite, although for some reason the camera did not pick up a couple of squares true colors. It should be from the top left corner a: mint green, the next one should be lavender, the rest are close enough to their color. I've been training my brain on Sudoku because some one said they played for their brain. Wonder who that was...it might have been Bixby.😂 I'm not much on pudding, so I'll take a pass on it. A huge Happy Birthday to the Navy! Ah...I'll keep my bra thank you and still be aware of breast cancer. Chess is one of those games I can't seem to grasp. I have no kids to swap costumes for and my costume is permanent😂. I no long own a motorcycle🏍 but I use to years ago like to ride it every chance I got. It was a Honda Twin Star 200.

Sending smarter brain hugs!🐶🐶🎃👻💕🍂💕