tim has some good advice zweefer.
right now, our bees, yours and mine here in wisconsin are and have been preparing for winter months. they are or have been back-filling the 2nd deep and pushing the queen down as they do. your carni queens should be slowing down a bit. drones will be dragged out and not allowed back in. your top deep needs to be heavy with honey or syrup, and the outside frames of the bottom deep. the cluster will begin late fall/ winter there, and as winter progresses they will move up, and will need the stores above through winter. if there is not enough stores, then feed syrup until and no later then mid october, (weather and temp dependant, they need to dry the syrup so as not to cause moisture problems in the hive later) and after that, place a shim on to add whatever feed directly over them or add a fondant board. i don't use fondant boards, i like to place feed directly over the bees with or without a shim under the inner cover, without the barrier of a board.
i know you don't have this option, but what i also do is, if i find a hive that is short on stores, (pretty rare with the russkies) i will either feed them back medium frames of uncapped honey with a high moisture content, or deep frames of honey from a previous winter dead out above the inner cover.
in the spring i don't reverse as the diagram shows. the bees move up, and they move down, i have had queens on occasion who didn't move down and wound up reversing, but very few. i place an excluder on when the supers go on with drawn comb for our first flow, dandelions. if i am wanting drawn comb, foundation goes on without the excluder until the foundation is drawn, then the excluder goes on on top the second box. that excluder never gets moved from the top of the second deep. there are times i have pulled it off when the first super is full or near full. for the most part i use the excluder because i typically have comb honey frames in and don't want the queens in the supers, and really don't want queens laying in my supers, and they will. the diagram shows moving the excluder above the first deep mid summer. i disagree with this. the bees know what to do and when, and imho with a strong colony, or any healthy colony, good queen, you will be confining your queen and might contribute to swarming. also your queen needs space to lay up winter bees.
i hope this helps!
