How can 2020 get any weirder, more trying, calamitous, stressful, or worthy of a good hair-pull? What about the increased need for reliable home security solutions? Burglaries and prowling are on the increase and at an alarming rate. Neighborhoods are even banding together to help take a bite out of....well, I don't want to emBARK on somebody else's slogan....but you get this idea.

Due to an increase in nefarious activity in our neighborhood, we recently purchased a few Ring video doorbells. One for each of three doors. So far, we're very happy with our purchase and we feel there have already been a few un-wanted visits of unknown intentions thwarted.

Check out this video dramatization.

This was a highly trained actress, my granddaughter, and I performed the portrayal of the homeowner. Um, since it's my house I guess it wasn't much of a stretch although I did try to add a sort of suffering-from-a-recent-head-injury kind of delivery. The camera quality and audio quality were both very good. Ring gives us quite a few options and we're still dialing-in just exactly how we want to use them.

Brian Stephenson
Brian Stephenson
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You can even set the system to be sensitive only to 'humans' which is handy for use at the backdoor - this way Tater, our Golden Retriever doesn't set the thing off incessantly. Sometimes, having the sensitivity to capture 'non-humans' is ideal.

Screenshot via YouTube
Screenshot via YouTube
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This little raccoon decided to drop in on this family.

Screenshot via YouTube
Screenshot via YouTube
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This bear actually got the door open to this parked car and proceeded to tear it up when he couldn't find a picnic basket.

Here's a funny compilation video we discovered on YouTube.

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