With the upcoming fair approaching, Olivia is baking her cake with special icing, Ben is preparing his pet hog for a greased pig catch, and Grandma is finishing a quilt for entry. An old beau of Olivia's, Oscar, is running for political office in Richmond, and plans to make a speech at the fair. Oscar's visit and thoughts about what her life would have been like had she married him make Olivia all the more certain that her life is a good one.

While picking berries Erin comes across a fawn without its mother and decides to take it home. Naturally the adults insist she return the creature to the wild, and the local game warden agrees. Meanwhile John-Boy seeks to be the rent collector for a miserly landlord, and learns a lesson by doing so (and he teaches one, too).