It's best to spay puppies before they go into heat the first time. It reduces the chance of several diseases, including breast cancer and uterine infections. Since small dogs (she's a Shih Tzu) mature earlier than larger breeds, most vets recommend spaying small and toy breeds at about 6 months. Since I have no plans at all of ever breeding her, it made sense to spay her before she would have any chance of that.

That makes sense

How is everyone?

Fine. Went to the The International Women's Air & Space Museum here in Cleveland last week.

Cleveland sounds like a great place to live.

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Sometimes. :lol:

A local movie theater was just named a national historic site. There are so few old-fashioned single screen theaters left, and this is one is a nice one. I'm hoping to go there sometime soon to catch a movie and enjoy the movie palace experience again.

Nice, that sounds like fun

:wave:

Looking forward to a week off next week :)

It was. Lots of neat info on the history of women in space. Did you know that the first woman in space was a Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova? Sally Ride was the first American female in space. Uniforms of the first airline stewardesses are displayed. I tried on some astronaut gloves. There are miniature replicas of the old planes many early female pilots flew.

There is a wall of photographs of all of the female space shuttle astronauts.

Ever heard of Bessie Coleman? She was from Chicago and became the first African American in the world to earn a pilots license. Unfortunately she was killed in an airplane mishap in 1926 at the age of 34. Her life story is displayed.

A display chronicling the life of Amelia Earhart.

A real lunar console donated from Houston. That was real interesting. NASA actually watched and communicated with the astronauts who flew to the moon on it. The small TV screen and adjustment knobs looked somewhat like what you would see on a TV set from that era. They actually let you touch the knobs and screen.

Cool stuff.

That sounds amazing :D

^ That does sound fun! That's a place to visit for sure :)

^^ Fascinating stuff.

It really is

I've had two really long, hard days at work and I'm dreading that tomorrow will be another one.