Sizzlebrain

 During my long life I've usually been the one who established and popularized nicknames, both for my family members and also friends. With that in mind, I suppose it's not surprising that I ended up playing a similar role here in the cabin with the cats. Cici, the little of the two sisters, is not often referred to The Vertical Cat or Nut Job or Two Pounds of Terror (all, clearly, originating with me). Her sister Mollie (or Miss Mollie, as Janet insists on calling her) is alternately referred to as The Horizonal Cat or the Lap Whore or Anvil Head or Sizzlebrain (which is based on her propensity to curl up next to the stove or the chimney, even leaning in with her brain pushed up against a pretty hot surface). Here she is upstairs happily napping against the chimney.

There comes a point when I should just go ahead and create a Label for Cats (we just received five calendars that I had manufactured mainly from pictures of Mollie and Cici.