Fall is for:

• Check your smoke detectors for battery life.
• Make sure your CO detectors are within 15′ of those bedrooms doors, and make sure they test out on their batteries too.
• Has your furnace been cleaned, serviced and safety checked in a while?
• Time to pull in all those hoses and make sure they are disconnected from the hose bib.
• Sprinkler systems = Winterization
• When do you put your snow tires on?
• Gutters clean and drain freely?
• Remove debris from around the house where rodents nest for the winter.
• One last mowing and get that winterization feed on the lawn.
• Check your weatherstripping.
• Check the battery life in your programmable thermostat.
• Close off the drafts from that whole house fan.
• Re-Program your outside lighting.
• Make that snow shovel and snow blower easy to access.

I know it sounds like an insurmountable list, but winter takes no prisoners, but planning can move “Old Man Winter” down the street.