A screen door

 

 

It’s not a dog door.  The dog door is in the wall next to the screen door.  If something really exciting happens on the porch though, the screen door can become a dog door, unhinged at the bottom.  A free-floating screen.  That happened at our house.  All the dogs had to do was blow through the screen door one time and then they could freely go in and out their door or our door any time they wanted.

 

We decided to improve the appearance and have the door re-screened.  To mitigate the risk of another screen door blowout, we put some screen decorations on the door at the appropriate height.

 

The decorations are reminders to anyone charging toward the door at that height, that even though they might not see it in a moment of excitement, there really is something there between them and the outside where the exciting thing is.

 

The decorations make cool shadows on the living room floor in the morning light too.

 

Just for the heck of it, we put one more screen door decoration at an appropriate height, just in case any of the human persons in our house don’t notice that the door is there in a moment of excitement.