Although of course we haven't been able to swim for quite awhile now, I still haven't totally closed my pool. Our fall temps are pretty erratic. Some days pushing upper 80s and some days in the 50s or 60s so I don't close it up too early. I wait until we start having freezing night time temps which will be fairly soon. I am still running the pump once in awhile as we have still been having quite a bit of warm weather although with November ending, it is about over for us. I add bleach every week or so. Maybe this weekend I'll jack the chlorine and pH up a bit and maybe add some polyquat. Will drop the water level some and pull the steps out. Not gonna bother with a winter cover. Too much of a hassle and the leaves are all off the trees by now anyways. We start getting warm pretty early in the spring so I typically open it back up in April so I can start chlorinating and running the pump again.