Living On Curry Road: Jane's Place and Melons

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, July 26, 2010

Jane's Place and Melons

Well, here she is, at her best. Donald and Kay gave her some water melon seeds and she planted them.

Guess what, they grew and grew and grew. Some how, the grass started growing too, and it grew and grew and grew. Jane had to get on her combat boots and wade in to find them little boogers, but she made it.

Finally she found them, lots of 'em, and boy were they good. Too bad, somebody ate every last one of them.

When she got thru, she had to retire to the front porch. I think this will be "the place" to be this Thanksgiving,,,,, we're working on that,,,,, hard,,,,, but Good Lord willing,,,,,, we'll make it.

Well, anyway, if you want to see why we love this place so much, take a look at the following.
This is what its all about, early morning sunshine, peace and beauty beyond anything in the world in our minds. This is truly God's work and is he good at it or what?