Snail Trails?!?!? Ewwwww!

I don't know how the darn slugs are getting in the house....but they do! I had laundry hanging on the line (the usual spot, in the kitchen!!!), and a snail got in and I guess he liked the jeans hanging there!
So, back in the washer they went!

I discovered another tasty treat here......

Fall is coming. The leaves are starting to turn and falling!

There is a petting zoo at the woods close to the house. The deer are walking all over there....

De Grote of St. Bavokerk te Haarlem

Today I visited St. Bavo's Church in Haarlem and took some better pictures. The last time I was inside, it was dark and crowded. The Christian Muller organ has 68 registers and 5068 pipes, the length of the longest pipe being 32 feet. Significant dates of the Bavo Church:  1 October 653: Death of St. Bavo, patron saint of the church; 1347 and 1351-town fires which damaged the church; 1370-1538-Construction of the present church; 1500-1508-Construction of the first tower; 1503-Roelant bell is installed; 1559-1578-The Bavo becomes a cathedral church; 1572-The Reformation; 1578-Definitive transition of the Bavo Church to the Protestantism; 1735-1748-Construction of the Christian Muller organ; 1959-1963-Restoration of the Christian Muller organ; 1964-1969-Restoration of the tower and extention of the carillon; 1981-1985-Second great restoration of the church; 2001-Second great renovation of the tower.

In 1756 Mozart, who was 10 years old at the time, played the Christian Muller organ. G.F. Handel also played this organ.

The floor of the Bavo Church consists entirely of gravestones. There are about 1500 gravestones altogether, the oldest of which date back as far as the fifteenth century. One of the people buried in the church is Frans Hals, a famous painter born in Antwerp in 1582.

The church from outside:

This is how the Grote Markt looked in 1959!  Quite a difference...It's much nicer now not having cars allowed in the area. On weekends it turns into a market area, which is quite wonderful!

Fall is definitely in the air!  The kiosks with yummy desserts have returned!

Andrew and I were walking around town this evening and saw an usual way of moving a washer and dryer!

The Flower shop in town...we don't know why people were dressed up. Seemed to be a scavenger hunt or something involving kids.