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Tabs Reveal

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  I knew a young man name of Ted and, Ted had this peculiar tab on the back of his head. Ted insisted he'd had the tab since the day he was born but, there were some that wouldn't believe Ted's insistence. Those in the non believing camp maintain there was no way Ted could be carrying memories from his birth to his present day. Anyway many of Ted's friends thought they should examine Ted's tab on the back of his head and Ted being amenable to the notion, Ted's friends gathered round and took a good hard look at the back of Ted's head. Magnifying glasses at the ready and the 'examination' began. After much looking and grabbing of the magnifying glass to get a real up close look at Ted's tab, Ted's friends and Ted arrived at some simple conclusions. One, the tab on the back of Ted's head did indeed look as though the tab had been on the back of Ted's head from his birth. Second, there was an arrow on the tab on the back of Ted's hea...

Surprises Every Day

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  Monday August 31, 2026 ... I got to see my very first desert tortoise on Monday and dang ... that was the very first time ever being able to see a live desert tortoise. Little dude was crossing a road through a golf course, which there are a number of golf courses where I live in the Mojave, and I've been traipsing the Mojave Desert for a very long time. You see the desert tortoise is a very shy critter and prefers to remain out of sight for reasons that are known to a desert tortoise. Especially for one crossing a road through a golf course. A golf course makes for almost perfect environmental conditions for a desert tortoise. Grass and water and the occasional golf ball so all things considered, tortoise paradise. Then there was a road runner crossing the same road and it was almost like one very special gift from the desert djinn. The djinn will do that on very rare occasions and I suppose the wife and I simply lucked out. I've seen desert big horn sheep, I've seen des...