Catfish on the Porch?

I was de-cluttering recently and came upon a letter from my sister, Barbara, from March of 2000. I almost always keep Barbara's letters because they are usually funny, besides being filled with the sort of mundane family info that keeps me close to my Mom's and sisters' day-to-day lives. For some reason this letter never got put away with the rest.

It was, for Barbara, a fairly tame sample of her letter-writing, except for one thing. She'd thought of something she'd meant to tell me after she'd sealed the letter, so she wrote it on the back of the envelope. And I can remember that when I got the letter I wondered how many U.S. Mail-people had read it and wondered about it.

Just below the seal she'd written: "Daddy found a live catfish on the front porch this morning."

And for the life of me I can't remember the story behind that spectacular statement! I'm going to have to make a phone call and have my memory jogged!!

My 15-Year-Old

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