No, you're right and it doesn't smell of Autumn yet, but it's colder. We put the heating on this morning, and I'm sitting with a quilt over my lap just now.
The boiler gets serviced at the end of the month.
Everything else is just the seasonal round.
Winter means changing out the duvets to heavier ones, airing the extra quilts and having them handy. Putting up the heavy curtains at the doors. Putting down the long door mats for wet/muddy feet coming in.
Bringing down the Winter jackets and coats and swapping them out for the lightweight ones, making sure everyone's got decent gloves and hats before they're needed.
I still have to wash and re-proof four jackets for my husband and Son2. I've done the rest and the over trousers.
Put away my Summer clothing and bring out the woollens
Pantry is stuffed since it's been a bumper year for crops, so now it's just really buying Christmas presents and baking the cake and topping it up with brandy every week.
My homemade mincemeat is maturing nicely
My store cupboards are pretty full too. I think lockdown showed me what we actually use, and I've kept a stock just in case.
I bought a pack of masks and more handgel, etc., and stashed them away.
The Scottish Govt says that they have concerns about the new variant and have brought forward the dates for vaccinations, so, we'll be aware, and careful and 'just in case', well I'm ready.
I have fuel and lights etc., should there be any power outages but they're really rare here, so that's not something desperately important, we have enough, just in case.
The garden needs a lot of work in the next couple of months though; plants to be lifted, dried, and stored away, shrubs and trees cut back, drainage cleared because we get a lot of rain and I'd rather it flowed out into the burn and didn't hang about the garden.
We need to put away the garden furniture, parasols, etc., too.
Pressure wash the paths.
Just a lot of 'stuff' to be done.
