Maisie gets caught splashing in the creek before Papa reveals their walk has a surprise destination: her grandparents' home across the river, which she's never visited. Once there, Papaw teases Papa with embarrassing childhood stories while Maisie instantly bonds with him over tree-climbing, and Memaw wins her over with honey treats and gentle grandmotherly warmth. By the end of the visit, an exhausted Maisie falls asleep against Papa, already begging to come back. 

Maisie loses track of Archie chasing a grasshopper, and the two kits are suddenly chased down by an over-eager, floppy-eared puppy who just wants to play. After the scare wears off, they befriend Toby and spend the afternoon on fetch, terrible hide-and-seek, and a chaotic game of tag. By the end, Archie's grasshopper reappears and lures both him and Toby away, leaving Maisie realizing she now has two of them to watch instead of one. 

Maisie and Archie wander up to the garden gate they've been told to avoid, drawn in by strawberries just out of reach, when the gruff, no-nonsense Badger Lawrence catches them mid-temptation and invites them in anyway. Over the afternoon he teases Archie, trades embarrassing stories about their father's own childhood mischief in the garden, and patiently teaches Maisie to tell weeds from carrots (a lesson Archie fails spectacularly). By the end, Lawrence sends them home with a basket of vegetables and a gruffly worded invitation to come back tomorrow.