We hate flys!

Sometimes I feel like the universe is against me.  My house is full of flys. They are driving me crazy. I hate that they poop on my windows and blinds.  Mostly, because I hate cleaning my windows and blinds.   And they attack my piano students.  I think they are attracted to the vibrations from the piano.  Somehow, they know that thanks to our little house pet our back door is open 100 times a day and my kids love to invite them in by standing with the door open or just plain old leaving it open.  I guess we do live in a barn.  I have tried everything to repell them.  Bags of pennies.  They didn't care.  Bags of water with pennies. They laughed. Raid. They scoffed.  So, I  was so fed up Saturday I ran to Dallas Green's and bought those disgusting fly strips.  I thought that within an hour I would have a fly strip covered in flys and the pests would spred the word to their little friends to stay away.  It was horrible getting them hung up.  I had to use Goo-Be-Gone to get the sticky crap off my hands.  The strips have now made a mess on my door frame and dripped on my porch.  The flys are still everywhere around the door EXCEPT the fly strips.  I did catch one mosquito and a spider.  You can see at least 3 of the devils in the picture just by the bag of water.  Arrgh!