This is our run where we play and watch the world go by. We have things to climb on and hide in and places to lounge about in the way cats do best and it's great when everything gets changed around.

We don't get out to roam because there are too many dangers out there. Poppy is deaf and it would be far too dangerous for her outside. We have each other for company and lots of toys.  

Mum tells us that this year she's going to work on extending our run so we can play on the grass. We think this is a good idea and wish she'd hurry up.

Tips for making a bed in a Maine Coon house: - 
Furtively choose a time when there are no cats around then quickly put a sheet on.  
Don’t worry about getting the sheet ‘smooth’ (a distant memory from pre ‘coonie days) No matter how fast you do this first bit, now your efforts will have drawn some volunteer ‘helpers’
In a multi cat household, each has their assigned task although I’m still not clear how these are allocated. In this house, Max has the job of getting into the clean cover while Poppy nests in the duvet.  Sophie lies on the sheet to make sure it doesn’t move.
Wrestle duvet into cover. 
Do a final check for cats before you fasten it. If the duvet is too heavy you've missed one. 
Put duvet on bed. 
Now the duvet cover cat takes the place of the sheet guarding one.
At this point they all decide that they would like to hide under the duvet but often can’t remember how to do this. 
A lot of sitting on each other is involved.
Leave them to get on with this and have a cup of coffee.

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals... In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.   Henry Beston