Hometown Happenings

What A Girl Wants Event, Vendor Overview, 4th of July Picnic and Duck Disasters

• Angela Ballard & Aundrea Rogers • Season 2 • Episode 3

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Ever had one of those weeks where caffeine becomes your best friend? Join us as we recount the hilarious chaos of sleep deprivation and just how many cups of coffee it takes to survive t-ball practice with little ones. Plus, hear about our unexpected rescue mission involving a deer and a flock of chickens, the resilience of kids bouncing back from wasp stings, and a heartwarming tale of a duck on the mend.

But that's not all! We also dive into the upcoming What A Girl Wants: Hot Girl Summer event! Get the inside scoop on the Lead Hill Fourth of July picnic, complete with a rodeo, car show, and pageant, plus the can't-miss small-town parade from Diamond City to Wedhill. Stick around to get excited about upcoming events and how you can stay in the loop with Home Team Arkansas and Home Time Happenings. Don’t miss out on the charm and community spirit that make our hometown so special!

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Angela Ballard & Drea Rogers
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Speaker 1:

What's up? Not much. Are you happy now that you finally got some dang coffee? I'm not happy. Yet I'm working on it. I've heard you talk about all morning is I need Red Bull and I need coffee.

Speaker 2:

I had a five-year-old thrown up in the middle of the night after we played. What two hours of t-ball last night. Do you want to babysit?

Speaker 1:

No, I didn't sleep good, though, last night either. I was awake. Most of the night Must have been awful, so how's?

Speaker 2:

your week been. I got to hang out in Lead Hill most of this week except for yesterday, so it's been pretty nice. I've been ditching that Bergman traffic.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, the road construction. Well, no, was that accident to there? When you came through, it was there, but they had already got the vehicles out of there. Oh, and they were like putting stuff on the road because I think something like leaked all over the road uh suv like a mid-size, like rear-ended a dump truck.

Speaker 2:

Hard like I'm surprised. I'd be really surprised if someone wasn't really hurt.

Speaker 1:

I saw on facebook they were turning people around.

Speaker 2:

I don't know, I didn't get to be one of those lucky people. I don't like how they're skipping, like every time I think, okay, well, we're almost done with this section. They skip a whole hunk and then move further down towards lead Hill.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I don't know what their rhyme or reason is to be done, so the only thing exciting that's happened to you this week is I could hang out with a t-ball.

Speaker 2:

That was fun. Our players have improved drastically, yeah they can actually hit off the coat. I feel like a disclosure needs to be made that our kids range in age from three to like nine, so we have a variety of skill sets, a variety of ages. We're just kind of a modge podge the craziest kid on the team's hers yeah, that's true dean's a crowd favorite that's.

Speaker 1:

That's the kid I'm talking about, right there he's.

Speaker 2:

We let him be the last batter for both games last night.

Speaker 1:

I don't know how you call that batting.

Speaker 2:

It's a game batting home run, no matter how it goes down, not and it's not like we don't practice at home. Like his dad is like legit into this and he's chopping at it like it it's an ax. So I make him stop in front of everybody and do a practice swing and it's perfect. And everyone's like yay, and the whole crowd's cheering for him oh yeah, they are. And the coach throw him a pitch but he doesn't swing at all. And I'm like after two or three pitches of not swinging at all, and I'm like, dean, you, you have to swing. And he's like I'm gonna make him throw me a good one. And the whole crowd just starts cackling and I'm like I can't teach him anything because everyone in the stands is supporting bad behavior.

Speaker 1:

After he showed us that he can bat properly, they throw him a pitch. Chops at it. Yep, yep, I'm, I'm done. The last team that we played this little girl, yeah, from the other team, when I was standing at third base. She was third baseman, she was so cute. She kept taking her glove off and her mom kept yelling at her about it. She kept putting it back on and then finally she was like talking to me. She's like what am I supposed to do?

Speaker 2:

And.

Speaker 1:

I was like, well, you're supposed to wait until the ball comes to you. And then you got to catch the ball and throw it to first base and she's like, is the ball ever going to come to me? I was like I don't know, it depends on you know where he hits it. I was like y'all pay attention, though, y'all pay attention. So then she'd stand there for a minute and then she'd come back over and ask me something else and I finally was like do you like t-ball? And she goes no, so funny. I was like, do you want to be at home?

Speaker 2:

yes, I don't want to be here. It's dusty and it's hot. I don't. I'm gonna assume that your high point of the week was the deer. Yeah, it was fun.

Speaker 1:

I've never held a deer before but chickens were way cooler you were in your habitat. It was like an army of chickens.

Speaker 2:

It was awesome all varieties and sizes and feathers it awesome.

Speaker 1:

If that had been a village of Australian shepherds I'd have freaked out, but it wasn't. I don't know. He's a cute little guy. I'm glad that he's not getting hurt, because they said that his legs or something were wrong with his legs.

Speaker 2:

Well, they knew that he had been without his mom for a while because of the way he was bowing, his muscles were breaking down and his ears were crumpling, yeah, so he was dehydrated, he was having some issues, but he looked like he was fine now.

Speaker 1:

yeah, so, anyways, yeah, that was a cool part of our our week.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so we had a duck massacre and we lost several ducks and but we had this one that had its backside bitten and there was a big grapefruit size hole in its back and I know you've seen pictures because you know you're a nurse, so I just assume you know vet care and I was asking for if there's anything that I wasn't doing that you could think of um, but she's completely refethered and like if you didn't know she'd ever been in an accident, you wouldn't be able to tell. And she still lays eggs any lows.

Speaker 1:

Your kids are fine. This week nobody got hurt no one got hurt.

Speaker 2:

Look, I said about that wasp last night. I thought he took that like a champ I didn't even know about it, so yeah, he got. He got double stung on the neck and pain tolerance, like he whimpered and kind of cried out when it happened, or else we wouldn't have known and so tasty treats trailer at anderson's and bergman.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, they move around, and you haven't been.

Speaker 2:

Have you? You? No, what do they have? Okay, so it's a snow cone thing, but they also have gourmet ice cream. They can stuff your snow cone with ice cream. I don't know. They have a whole bunch of flavors and they have a whole piece of paper listed of flavors and combinations and stuff and it's ran by kids, you said a 10-year-old, a 10-year-old and her and stuff, and it's, it's ran by kids.

Speaker 2:

You said a 10 year old, a 10 year old and her brother, and there's one more. I only uh, I only met hadley and her brother they.

Speaker 2:

They convinced their dad, old runs the trailer, her and her brother yeah, and her I mean like her mother, obviously yeah but yeah, what kind of I didn't 10 year old, I was not thinking of business owning and it's good and it's quality and it's consistent and they, they get up and they go to work, just like, you know, adults do. I was pretty impressed by it. But, um, and they're also coming to the fourth of july picnic that we have coming up soon here in lead hill too, so you'll get to at least sample it at that, if you don't get a chance to go outside at what a girl wants?

Speaker 1:

oh, because they're going to be at what a girl wants too.

Speaker 2:

Yep, you're going to be outside at what a girl wants, and I'm hoping to convince hadley, the 10 year old, to come be on our podcast and sit down and chat with us a little bit and tell us about what it's like to be 10 and run a business yeah, like it.

Speaker 2:

just I think it says a lot about her character that her parents knew that they could invest in this for her and trust her to go through with it and keep up with it. At 10 years old, if I had asked for a food truck, my dad would have laughed me off the face of the earth. Right, I was not a consistent human being at 10. So I think that speaks volumes about her and her brother.

Speaker 1:

And about where she's going to go.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, If she's doing this at 10.

Speaker 2:

yeah, so what a girl wants event, yeah, coming up on june 29th it is yeah, signature tower I'm pretty pumped about this one we have a lot of good vendors coming this is your warning if you want something, you better get there early there's a five dollar ticket fee at the door and all the ticket proceeds are going to grandma's house children's advocacy center in harrison, um. But if you want something a good, what we changed about this event versus the one back you? Can't pre-book you can't pre-book, so if you want botox or you want a facial or lashes or a tattoo. Get there and get in line, because you won't be able to get it.

Speaker 1:

More than likely it will fill up, but we didn't allow anyone to fill up before the day of right, but we're gonna have food trucks, we're gonna have taste treats, we're gonna have sweet honey, we're gonna have and we have like all the things with five or six different boutiques that all have a different little vibe, different aesthetic, so you can in different price ranges and there are people that are doing like gift bags and, oh yeah, your membership to their

Speaker 2:

businesses. And yeah, because this we have, uh, the wave tanning's coming and that also is bundled with har Fitness. We have Brickhouse Fitness, which is the gym that we go to. Boxing is legit If you have ever even thought about punching someone. This is a good way to get toned arms and vent frustrations. It's like couples therapy on Wednesday nights, but they have classes aimed at everything Zumba, pio, whatever that bicycling stuff is, spin, spin. We have Shelby's, sisters, frenzy's, bee's, tacky.

Speaker 1:

Cactus.

Speaker 2:

That Diamond Bee's boutique. I just ordered overalls from her last week.

Speaker 1:

Sisters is going to do a flower bar, okay, that'd be cool Like summertime bouquets.

Speaker 2:

Okay, sweet Honey's got a menu planned. I don't know what all that encompasses. I don't know if it's a variation from what they're normally doing over at the bakery. I'm excited about that.

Speaker 1:

We are. You frequent that place every day. Mary Kay ladies oh yeah, we have Mary excited about that. We are. You frequent that place every day um mary k ladies. Oh yeah, we have mary k, so people could come and like get makeup and stuff like that massage by val, oh my gosh, that woman is a genius. Your med spa um the lash lounge, right yeah?

Speaker 2:

hayley layton with the uh hayley's lash lounge. She does eyelash extensions, but she also does like brow laminations, brow. Oh, the photo booths. She has a photo booth. You can invite her to your wedding bridal shower, anything like that. She sets up like an overlay. You guys need to just come to see this. You can get a picture with your bed scene. It's got this cool little themed overlay that they add to it A lot of fun. She has a whole setup, but Rowdy Rascal.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, the kids boutique. Yeah, she has really cute stuff. Yeah, she has really cute kids stuff.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, she has really cute stuff and what I liked about rowdy rascal as a boy mom. It's hard to find stuff that's not little monster trucks on everything and she's it's a little more mature looking. If you're, especially if you're needing to take a kid to an event, you don't want him to wear mickey mouse yeah, I mean she has all the things um, and then my, my bestie this week golden fusions, oh yeah yeah, she had to rehydrate me last week, which is kind of nice.

Speaker 2:

You just sit in the vibrating chair and it massages your back and she puts a heat pad on your arm and you can take a nap. And there's some judgment if you want to take a nap, why? She's giving you fluids and ivy um, there's like a whole menu of them which we've posted on our page. What else do we?

Speaker 1:

have.

Speaker 2:

Hometown happenings. So, guys, you want to be there first. Right, so that if it is something that you want to do, you need to be there and be ready. If you watched Hometown Happenings in the past season, you watched us stuff our face at a food truck. Jameson's Pizza is the best pizza.

Speaker 2:

Their pizza slices are the size of my head, so. And then you bundle deals and they're they're open during the week. Um, delicious pizza. And I never would have thought that that cheeseburger pizza would have been my jam, until you know, I love cheeseburger pizza. But they're gonna be. They're gonna be set up in the parking lot no, jameson's pizza sorry hot girl summer.

Speaker 2:

We're hoping to do this seasonally um hoping to get together to schedule a fall one, but right after home, after hometown happenings, hosts, what I go once hot girl summer we have something else coming.

Speaker 1:

They voted last night. We're hosting emceeing. What are we?

Speaker 2:

yeah, so lead hill. Fourth of july picnic so most people.

Speaker 2:

If you're not from the hill, you're not going to know the. The background history about the little picnic it has been around since level was founded, um, the reason we call it the picnic it is not anymore where you go, sit up a blanket and have a picnic basket. It's so much bigger than that now, but that is how it started. It was like almost like a family reunion in time for people to come together. They come in on their horse and carriage and they hang out for the afternoon. So that's kind of the vibe. But we have so much more now. We have a rodeo on the weekends and um in the evenings, but during the day there's activities. We have a car show, which is my jam, and the pageant. So we're going to post the schedule of events.

Speaker 2:

I know that Lead Hill this is going to be completely new to you guys. We've never had someone host the Lead Hill picnic Right and we are hoping, with support of the local Chamber of Commerce, that we're able to uh offer this to businesses every year. Someone new can be the host of the picnic, can uh promote it online, can kind of just be a go-to kind of person. It is sponsored by the chamber. It is still the chamber who heads it up. We're just kind of, like you said, said emceeing the event.

Speaker 1:

Trying to help advertise for the chamber. Yeah, it's a great way to bring people to our community because it's lots of fun events and the rodeo is fun, the pageant is fun. That's for boys and girls.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, those kids have the opportunity to ride in the parade if they choose. So they get a crown. They got the whole nine yards it's. It's a cute little thing that we put on. Um theme wear is usually encouraged. So fourth of july, patriotic theme wear.

Speaker 2:

Um, they have a like a bake-off, like a pie there and there are certain rules that have to be applied to that situation because of cottage house rules. So no cream pies or anything like that with dairy, that could go bad, but like cookies, cakes and things like that, apple pies, pecan pies, that kind of thing. And then you can submit those and they do have winners, they have judges that come in and all that fun stuff. And then you can come in the next day and buy desserts by the slice or by the hole and that money also goes towards the chamber because the chamber puts on sponsors a lot of events in our town and, being a small town, I mean we all have to come together to make these events happen and I know it's a good time to enjoy the small town atmosphere that Leadville and Diamond City have together.

Speaker 1:

We have the car show Saturday morning.

Speaker 2:

It starts bright and early. There'll be everything from race cars, muscle cars, motorcycles.

Speaker 1:

How do you register for the car show?

Speaker 2:

You can go online and pre-register if you want to. It's cheaper. It's cheaper Five bucks. Five bucks to register online To pre-register if you want to, or you can register it's cheaper Five bucks. Five bucks to register online To pre-register. You can also contact us. We can hook you up, or it's $10 to register at the event. But we do the car show, we have judges that go around and we also have a people's choice. We'll be doing a 50-50 ticket drawing that we can give more details of if you want to message me on that one. After the car show, we have it scheduled so that the parade follows immediately after and the parade in a small town if you're not from a small town, like everybody and their sister comes out for this parade.

Speaker 1:

The streets will be lined and we go from Diamond City to Wedhill.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it starts at the Diamond City Community Center If you want to be a part of it. They do accept floats and there's awards for best floats. So if you have a church that wants to participate, if you have Boy Scouts that want to participate, we have all of these opportunities to come together well, I guess we need to go to work now.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

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