By Tad Archer
This is a submission from our Christmas in July event for guest blogging on My Merry Christmas. Tad chose the topic “The Christmas I Remember Best” as the theme for his blog post.
Mutt is a horrible name for a dog. But that was what we first named the scraggly looking thing because that’s what he was – a medium sized, wired-haired, brown-eyed, dirty dog. Little did I know that this dog would become the Christmas Mutt.
He had followed us all the way from the school. We were walking home on a lazy summer afternoon was it was just too hot to play. The other guys teased him for how ugly he was and
I’m ashamed to admit I wasn’t very nice to him.
A day or two later, on a hot summer morning, I headed to Oscarson’s Pond to go fishing and he appeared again out of nowhere and followed me. This was the day I learned how amazing of a dog he was. This was the day I learned that dog...
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