That means while he is at work, Annie has to get started on planting the year's crop. She starts to go get the tools for planting when a genius idea comes into her head.
“Okay, I need you to listen to my plan,” she tells them. “I have an idea for how we can plant the corn. Grace, dogs are good at digging holes, so as we go along the rows, you dig little holes for me to put the corn in. After the holes are made, I will drop the corn in. Then, Clover can fill the holes back in. When we are all done, we can go over all the rows and water them.” After she explains the plan, they get to work in the fields. Annie’s plan was working so great! They are about halfway through the field when it is time for lunch. As they are headed into the house for lunch, Clover sees a mouse in the field.
Annie and Grace are already ahead of Clover so he figures it would be okay if he went to chase the mouse for a few minutes. The mouse kept on teasing him, it would come close to him but then run away so he has to go after it. Clover is running around chasing the mouse still when he realizes that he wasn’t in the field anymore. He is in the median of the road. He can’t believe it that he has gone that far without noticing. Clover is still a kitten, so he doesn’t have a very good sense of direction