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







Tuesday, July 27, 2010

A Little More Update

We have about 65 gallons of paint and we're waiting on the new tin roof.   The tin roof is the hold up for painting because a lot of eve and roof structure work is going to be done in preparation for the new roof.  The tin roof will be the color of "tin" or actually will not be colored at all.   We all agreed that would be the most authentic roof.

We'll paint the exterior a full white color with some black screens on the windows.   The interior is going to be a mixture of shades of violet & blue (the living room and dinning room), yellow(in the kitchen) and green (the sun room).  All a lot of planning by the ladies and all very well done.  It looks a lot like Sherwin Williams show room in the front bed room.  You'll also notice the new subfloor decking, getting ready to lay the laminate flooring.


You can also tell the location of the refrigerator (kinda) in the next picture.  The entire north wall of the kitchen will be where the sink and counter top area will be.  We're thinking about making the "mud room" {just thru the door in the picture to the right of the frig.} a part of the kitchen/eating area but lots of other work to be done first.


You can't believe how much cleaning Jane (and me when I have to)  has done.  This old house has held up great over many many years.  It was totally vacant for a couple of years and it remained solid and strong without any up keep.

We have completed most of the hard things and time consuming efforts.  Now we can begin to work on the "pretty" things that will help give the house the appearance Donald and Kay are looking for.

By the way did we say WE'RE ENJOYING EVERY MINUTE OF IT!!!!

Carl and Jane, (and of course, you know who)

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