Remember

It seems the birds remember stuff.  We have been being nice to a couple of crows that regularly visit.  They don’t eat out of our hand or anything, but we think they think of us as friends.  I even think they may like me.  They seem to have forgiven the fact I have given them a frozen egg twice and put ice around an egg so the best they could do was lean towards the egg until the ice melted.
One crow does cause us much merriment.  It covers the egg with a leaf to save it for itself.  Great idea, except the leaf is so small the egg appears on both sides of the leaf.  Last I saw today, the wind had blown the leaf off.
The Little Wattle Bird seems to remember we are its friend.  Sometimes it gets attacked by Australian Minors.  One on one it is fine.  They gang up.  It is not a fair fight.  This morning Merril said “the terrorists are back.”  We have referred to them as a gang before but never terrorists.  The Little Wattle bird comes to us when it is attacked.  It remembers we have come to its aid before, and we will again.
There is a reason they say, “an elephant never forgets.”  Many of those sayings are based on observations.  Elephants follow the same tracks and remember humans for a lifetime.  I observe too, but my eyes get heavier and heavier as the day progresses. 
I had to leave my dog (Sammy) in Townsville when I came to Brisbane.  After a number of years, I visited Townsville.  My dog saw me, and I never knew a little dog could have such a big chest or wag it’s tail so it looked like the tail was waging the dog. I had been gone ages but he remembered me.  A person could say I had been gone a “dog long” time.  But it is probably best they don’t.
I like to remember stuff too, though there are some things I would prefer to forget.  There are what I consider little truisms that I regard as signposts and like light houses for me.  “Never make a decision when you are down” is one of them.  That one has been significant to me on a number of occasions.  I remember a person was doing a course and wanted to give up.  I knew it was an emotional decision based on immediate, rather than long term circumstances.  It was not considered over time and seen to be the answer.  I said, “if you give up, I’m giving up to.”  They did not want that so continued without regret.  They told me later if had not said that they were gone.   I see that stuff like fog.  It clears, but while there, I cannot see clearly.
 “Peter Kuskie is the el supremo” is another truism.  Well it is not really, but it is understandable if you thought that was a self-evident truth.
It is probably in my best interests I remember some things.  Like “don’t put your hand on a turned-on stove when it is hot.”    Either good advice or bitter experience taught me that.
Animals remember.  I remember.  Probably best as well I do me thinks, otherwise I would be a sitting duck.