You can feel it in the air, and you hear it on the news.

The weather is beginning its seasonal change, slowly but surely.

I told my husband that I think we will get an early snow this year, because the leaves are beginning to curl on the maple tree.

Probably on Friday, I will begin the annual ritual of emptying out the pool so that we can close it on Saturday.

The night time temperatures are causing the pool water temperature to drop into the 60’s and it would take several days and nights of warm temperatures to raise the water temperature, so we pretty much agree that the swimming season is finished - for this year.

The doggies had fun, for sure, but now they can look forward to the snow time!!

I grabbed the two containers of anti-freeze, that you pour into the return lines, last week and this week I only need to get one more 5-gallon container of chlorine.

Last year my husband had a special pool cover made from this heavy heavy material. You cannot imagine how much I dread having to pull this monster over the pool. It is heavy when it is dry, can you imagine how bad it was when we pulled it off the pool this past Spring? Oh man… !!!

One good thing that we did also last year is place a leaf/debris netting over the cover which reduced the amount of junk that fell into the pool when the cover was removed. Your vaccuuming time is greatly reduced when you use some sort of leaf/debris catcher on the cover.

It is a bit of work to close the pool, but when my husband and I start on it, it usually only takes about an hour or so. There is an order to the completion of things and you have to make sure that it is done correctly so that your pool will open in the Spring without a problem.

And once closed, then I do not have to mess with it again until we open it sometime in May or June.

Soon the Canadian geese will be flying overhead… That is when you truly know that winter will be heading this way…

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