The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for April 09, 2024

Here today, gone tomorrow.

Adult mayflies don’t eat. They mate and die. There are no kiddies around them. Yes, I know it’s just a cartoon, and quite a good one. I’m just adding a factoid of interest.

here today, gone this afternoon…

And beware of the undertoad. You don’t want to be eaten before the day is even up.

Time “flies”!

Mayflies lay from hundreds to thousands of eggs. I’m guessing the rest of their children are out in the water, feeding the fish.

If you have the inclination, Google Benjamin Franklin’s short, humorous letter to a lady friend in France, “The Ephemera.” (An “elderly” mayfly philosopher bemoans the deterioration of his species society.)

But do you know?

Mayfly larve swim?

Next month this comic May fly, in April it’s usually too cold to go swimming.

Here today, gone today.

Being a mayfly mom is a 24/1 job.

Mayfly mom=dumbed down version of helicopter parent?

This story does not age well

Next hour we vacation in the mountains.

Yikes! Looks like one mom has already kicked the bucket! Or is she doing yoga?

The mayfly, so called because it may not. (HF Ellis)

Shocking that there are no bananas here.