Trivial

I love almost everything about summer. And yet, I do not enjoy flies... especially the ones buzzing around my living space. Most days I have two very active fly catchers after them, so they don't last too long. Today the flies seem particularly bad and I know that I am certainly to blame. I am a leave-the-patio-door-open-all-weekend kind of gal. Why? Well, partly because I am in and out all weekend, and because you simply cannot have too much fresh air, but mostly because I like to give the dogs access to the house and yard when I'm home (particularly for long stretches on the weekend). I certainly could shut them in one location or the other, but since one of them is always following me from place to place and the other is outside as much as possible, it is just less complicated to leave the door open. Enter the flies.

It is probably even worse this time because I also missed trash day this week. So not only did I leave the door open for them, I tempted them with week old trash. Bad move Reenie. And then today I wore out my fly catchers with a hot bike ride... so they aren't budging to eat the flies like they usually do. So it feels particuarly fly ridden in here today. And here I sit, searching the internet for homemade fly traps, thinking I should still take out the garbage and put away the bike, and finish a bunch of other stuff before bed... which should be in about 20 minutes. Ah well.

And there you have it, a trivial post about the one thing I do not love about summer, the house flies. (Please share if you have some secret on fly control-- other than closing the door- I can't possibly entertain that obvious of a solution).