All The Rage Faces and Katy Didn't

As much as I enjoy a good rage face in the various blogs and websites, I can't say I ever really wanted to post one of my own. Until today and the whole Katy Didn't thing.

If you aren't familiar with rage faces, they aren't just faces of rage. They aren't even real faces. Well, except for Jackie Chan and a few specific ones.


Sure, there are a few "I'm enraged" faces but there are more varied and a real form of "a stick figure face is worth a thousand words" emotive genius.

Until I can draw better stick figures, I'll just download every rage face in a single zip file and use on an as-needed basis for those times when I can't find the right words. Or when I need to cut a novel down into a post.

You can thank me later.

Oh no Katy didn't ...
This morning CJ stumbled upon what he called a walking leaf and I called a grasshopper. He didn't think "grasshopper" was the right name/type for this insect so we let the interwebz play mediator.

Honestly, I don't have a problem with my son asking questions and demanding I give him specific, scientifically proven facts. It actually makes me very, very happy to get into these kinds of discussions with him.

Heck, I was curious about the little creature myself and so excited to have a good homeschool project and nature study idea for the CJ's Kids Club Nature Kid Members.

The fact that I don't have to push CJ to study is a super rich icing on my unschooling cake. I have zero qualms about dropping whatever I'm doing to help CJ research something he is excited about and that I can count toward school credit.

Anyway, it turned out that we were both wrong.


Katy was a "False" katydid and could bite if held improperly. He was also a boy. Let's just say the equipment on a female is sort of like the equipment on a human male: it sticks out.

Although both the Texas A&M Website and Encyclopedia Britannica say that the katydid sings a "katydid, katy-didn’t", we didn't hear it.

Our guy was too busy trying to escape from our Magnifying Bug Discovery Kit (Dollar Tree has tons of cool stuff) to honor us with music. Which meant that we - once again - fired up the Verizon aircard and the interwebz to see what the concert should sound like.

We saw a few great YouTube videos and heard some interesting recorded sounds but ... we still didn't hear "katydid, katy-didn’t".

Perhaps it's just us?

Have fun, stay safe, and G-d bless,