Nugget turns 1

It is not lost on Philip, even Amanda, that the life that Nugget lives is far superior to that which JR lived. Now to be fair, this is probably true of most children. The resources that their parents had at the time the first child was born are perhaps much less than they had with…

A Nugget update

We were at the vet this week to be weighed = Nugget, not me. He is now 7 lbs 8 oz…. yup, 7.5 lbs! JR was about 8.5 lbs at his heaviest, so he’s near the size of JR. We are at the beginning of a thaw, and Nugget is loving being able to go…

2025 Waters review

January 2025 began with a very exciting proposition…we were getting a puppy! I would say in many regards Nugget (though we had no name yet) was the biggest story of our year. But let me start with the book I was reading on January 1, 2025. It was Star Spangled Jesus, a look at the…