Its Here!

Time to really wear the wool! Mother Nature told us so herself over the weekend with a clear message that its time to reorganize our brains and wardrobes around here. Winter is comin'!

With the house decked out for Halloween, Friday may have felt like the essence of Autumn. But toss some snow over those, still waiting to be raked up, leaves...

...drive through some fairly intense flurries...

...past a wintry landscape...

To find the ropes connecting the boat to the dock frozen solid...

...and the whole "summer cottage" thing really feels "done" for the season. (FYI re those frozen ropes, Beloved had to pry them open with a screwdriver but some people carry knives this time of year to cut their boats loose when prying won't work!

Hence we quite happily did the last few tasks of draping the windows and furniture to get the place ready for its winter-long, frozen nap...

Then, without ever lighting a fire or taking off our coats (it was zero degrees celsius inside and out after all) back across the lake to the marina to winterize the boat and put it into storage.

Back home, the To Do list for the house looms large but without the cottage to draw our time and attention away I'm kind of looking forward to getting some stuff done around HERE!

Not the least of which - knitting - like I said, its wool season!