Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
Last week we again had a
family visit us with their chil
dren. This time the boys were
preschool and needed a lot of at
tention. So, the family did not
hunt tourist attractions. We
have a large basement with a lot
of toys and that kept them busy
most of the time.
And, we had another family
gathering while they were here.
My sister, who lives in Michigan,
had her children gather from
three states to meet their cous
ins. Today’s world really
scatters us as we go where the
jobs are. College educations help
to disburse the young people all
over the country.
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nity to revisit The National
Watch and Clock Museum in
Columbia, Pennsylvania. It has
been expanded and renovated in
the last year. The 12,000 time
pieces are very attractively dis
played. They range from early
sundials to modern watches.
I was especially interested in
the tall case clocks commonly
known as Grandfather clocks.
One among them was the fanci
fully signed Martin Shreiner
clock, which was made by my
three times great uncle. His chil
dren followed in his footsteps
and also were clockmakers. The
museum is fun and educational
and has a library and research
center where you can browse.
We had a lot of April showers
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Hundreds of thousands -
maybe even millions - of may
flies will soon be emerging from
the western shores of Lake Erie.
Their number one goal? To
find a mate, lay eggs, then die.
That’s the reason entomolo
gists, or people who study in
sects, think they all emerge at
once there’s a better chance
for the mayflies to find that spe
cial insect mate.
Adult mayflies are about an
inch long with big wings and two
or three threadlike tails. Imma
ture mayflies, called nymphs,
look very different. They are
narrow, long and oval-shaped,
with shovel-like front legs and
seven pairs of gills on their belly.
All mayfly nymphs live at the
bottom of quiet bodies of water
or rapidly flowing streams for
about two years. They’ll molt -
or shed their hard shell to grow
bigger about 20 times before
they change into the adult form.
Adult mayflies only survive
about a day. They don’t eat,
recently and my sugar peas are
really growing. They are almost
a foot high and are climbing up
the fence that my husband put
up for them.
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crawl or walk; they only fly and
mate within the swarms of thou
sands of mayflies that emerge
from the water, all at the same
time. Males die right after they
mate. Females fly back over
water and release as many as
8,000 eggs.
The eggs sink to the bottom,
and, once they hatch, the whole
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on the Penn State Campus on
Saturday, May 6 from 1 p.m. to
8 p.m. and on Sunday, May 7
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The show
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Mayflies are great food for
fish and birds, they don’t bite or
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