Buttoning up Wiser Times for the Winter

We spent some time yesterday readying Wiser Times for the winter.

The yard looks kind of dreary and brown now ... it looks SO much better in summer.

I raked a bunch of leaves.

We took down the screen porch.

While we were taking things down and covering them up, we had a hailstorm!

Here's how it looks now that everything's put away.

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Here's what the water looks like right now.

Finally, the reward -- we had our first fire in the fireplace last night!