Our new caller ID box works. I used the cell phone to call the land line and it showed up on the ID box. I guess there is an advantage to having a cell phone when you still have dial-up internet. You can call the land land from the cell phone and lo and behold the number shows up in the ID box as an incoming call. Hooray. Now we just need to move from dial-up to DSL. That may happen during Anthony's absence, or it could wait until he returns because it means a visit from the man from Verizon and Anthony won't be here to greet the phone man and take him out to the back yard to work on our phone box (no, that's not a euphemism)
