Down A Gravel Road

Down A Gravel Road
Finding Curry Road

Welcome to the Adventures of Living On Curry Road

Rye, Arkansas is located eleven miles north of Warren, AR, fifteen miles west of Monticello, AR and approximately thirty miles south of Pine Bluff, AR. Rye has been the home of the Curry family for over five generations. This family has farmed this land producing cattle, chickens, timber. The area is beautiful and the family culture is equally impressive with its generations of family that continue to live by the standards that made America a great country.

Rye, AR and the Curry family are a story of strong American values and the building of personal character, the love of God and a lot of very hard dedicated work. Donald Curry and Kay Curry are the current owners of most of the original farm land originally developed by the generations of Curry family. Kay Curry is the daughter of Jimmy and Hazel Baker and married Donald over fifty years ago. Both have continued the legacy of the farm life on Curry Road. Donald and Kay have raised a family of two daughters and one son. Mark Curry currently operates a cattle operation as well as four chicken houses on his part of the property. Lisa Tooke, wife of Dennis Tooke of Lake Charles, La and Donna Curry, of Little Rock, AR plan to retire back to the farm land when thier retirement time comes.

Jane and I were asked to help in a restoration of the 104 year old house shown above. We are so blessed to be allowed to have input as well as provide a labor of love to help restore this house to its original beauty for Donald and Kay Curry

As Jane and I came into the property with our RV, we came down the gravel road leading to Curry Road. We came down this gravel road and had to stop and take a picture. We are including that picture with this overview so you too can see the beauty of this area.

It reminded us of the book “The Painted House” by John Grisham and we hope you will get the same response.

Jane, Carl and Charlie Pierce







Monday, March 22, 2010

Moving Ahead With Great Speed

Well, we have been moving along at a slower pace with some strong demands from the ole chicken farm life style but we are now moving at a great pace .  Chickens have been taken away and Mark came in 1st Place in his regional group.  Quite an accomplishment in such a competitive business.  Mark and Donald work very hard and they are so dedicated to quality production.  This chicken farm business is a science and requires so much attention.   Someone in Northwest Arkansas should be happy to have a number of these type producers. 

But, as we said, we are now back on the game plan.  Above you can see Jane doing some caulking on the windows.  We all agreed that we needed to rebuild the windows in the sleeping room and restore the windows to as close to their original condition as possible.  (Strange as it sounds, these windows were hand built on site years ago. They are not "pre-hung" type windows but rather each window was built for each window and then installed in a track.)  Therefore, we replaced the old worn wood framing, replaced the worn window framing, and then reset the windows.  We also must re-install new panes in the windows and do so with the same process as they were originally created.  These windows were custom built, in place and are indeed unique.  So, Jane and Kay have agreed to reinstall any missing panes and broken panes back with the same percision and efforts as original construction.  Lots of labor, but worth the effort and we appreciate the hard work of the ladies. 

We also started the plumbing process bringing the water line from the meter at Curry Road to the house and then into the bath, laundry and kitchen area.  We've got about 300 feet of ditch and work to do and its worth every inch.  The picture above (if you really check it closely) shows the line starting at the road and moving to the house.  With luck we'll have water in the house before the next snow.   (By the way, did I tell you it snowed this past Sunday,,,,,, Yep,,,, March,,,, snow,,,,,, with the daily temperature returning to 70 plus degrees tomorrow!)

The yard is also being "turned under" and re-leveled for the coming spring and summer growth.  It turns out that as we turned the soil over we discovered a new complete garden area with dirt so good that we think it will grow anything.

Can't beat this growing blessing.  We're actually getting so excited and feeling so blessed that we are beginning to "look over our shoulder".

This is work with a purpose and we hope you feel the love of the effort.  We want everyone to enjoy the result in the coming months. 

By the way, we're gaining followers and local people are expressing an interest in the process.  Anyone that wants to provide input should let us know by email.    You can email carlnpierce@gmail.com , kaycurry67@gmail.com or janebpierce@gmail.com

More to follow so stay tuned.





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