Providing Security...

 

"Tell me this has nothing to do with the President and Vice President being in Phoenix on Sunday."

This has nothing to do with any of that.

I am speaking of family security.  And, no, before you ask, it has nothing to do with weapons of any kind.  Well, I should define "weapons."

I was thinking about this while in the shower this morning (shower thoughts?)... not one time since Murphy has been a part of this family have Joan or I been attacked while in the shower.  After seeing the movie Psycho as a youngster, I thought being attacked while in the shower would be more of an issue.

The reason for this safety: Murphy is providing security - right at the bathroom door.  Open or closed, no one is going through to do us harm while in the shower.

 

For full disclosure, Rufus also provided this security service.  I don't remember the girls (Smoke, Molly, and Izzy) doing that, but they always were there to rub your legs while sitting on the toilet.  (TMI?)

The "weapons" I alluded to above are the murder claws and fangs.  Rufus had fangs like a saber-tooth tiger; Murphy's fangs are smaller, but just as capable of tearing out a bad guy's jugular.  Or fighting off a grizzly.  Or, a moth.  Any creature that might consider an attack on his Mom and Dad.  Always on the job.

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Adjustments...

"You went to the chiropractor, Jim?"

Oh, so close.  But, no.  After lunch and In & Out, Joan is working on a couple sewing projects, and I wanted to try some different camera settings on the HoverAir X1 Pro.  The auto settings do a decent job, but I need to "tweak" the image results, generally making them a it darker... meaning they are slightly over-exposed.  Wanting to keep most of the settings "auto," I changed the exposure compensation to -0.7... shooting both stills and video tests, that seems about right...

 For full disclosure, most of the images that I post here get a "tweak" in exposure, color balance, and contrast; it takes a few seconds with each image, so no big deal.  The image above didn't have any of those tweaks.  The image below is before making that exposure compensation...

 And then, "tweaked"...

 The closer the exposure to ideal, the less "tweaking" necessary.