Doorbell!

Been busy with boring maintenance stuff recently: sealing the back deck and stairs, weeding, etc. Nothing interesting enough to post about. But I just realized that I hadn't posted a picture of our new doorbell...and its tiny house:

 

A few weeks ago, AJ rightly decided that it would be faster to order a new wireless doorbell than wait for me to get around to rigging up my Rube Goldberg-esque nautical bell doorbell. And so the new doorbell arrived, and the "Memories" (from Cats) chime was selected.

Not to allow anything to be too easy, I decided to take very seriously the manufacturer's instructions to not put the doorbell button in a place where it would get rained on directly -- so I built it a little house.

I have had many compliments on the arrangement, including from Mr. Bunkport, our contractor, who saw it while doing work on the house next door, and some strangers who were walking by and took a photo of it. People seem tickled by it, despite its extremely serious mission: alerting us to when our dinner order arrives, rain or shine.