Kate and the family's annual spring cleaning regimen coincides with the US Air Force doing maneuvers over the valley. Part of those maneuvers, which the public is not aware, includes testing out a new high powered camera, which looks like an ordinary black box with wires coming out of it. It is set to explode twelve hours after any unauthorized removal from the aircraft just in case the camera gets into enemy hands. Less than adept Colonel Millbank, who is flying the aircraft in question, accidentally loses the camera in flight, it landing on the Shady Rest property. While Millbank and his commanding officer, General Elmer Loomis, search for the camera, the hoarders among the Bradley family want to keep this new find, despite they being in the process of throwing everything else out and despite they not knowing what it is. The question becomes whether the Air Force can find the camera, or whether Kate and the family will dispose of it safely before it blows up.
—Huggo