Flies...

I've been noticing that there have been an unusual amount of flies getting into the house.  I just shoo them towards the back door and send them on their merry way.  But, this morning, I woke up to around 20 of them flying around the kitchen - yikes!  And yuck!  Once again, I showed them the back door.  Suddenly, I thought there must be something dead somewhere in the house. Yuck again!  Bob climbed into the attic and I walked around the outside of the house.  Nothing dead, but I did find flies chillin inside one of the basement windows.  Yup, there's a large fly family in one small room of the basement.  The cat has been very insistent about going downstairs for the past few days, so I sent him down.  He hasn't found anything yet, but sure seems to be having fun in part of the house that is usually forbidden to him. Who doesn't love a smelly basement!