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







Sunday, July 25, 2010

Long Time No Post

Well, as usual, we've been slow in our posting,  because we have been working our little butts off.
But,,, boy are we pleased and happy.  We owe all the progress to the dedication and desires of Donald and Kay (and Donna, Mark and the Tooks).

We have almost completed the bathroom and it looks OK so far.  Still a little more work to be done but the major work is completed with the flooring, paneling, new shower stall, mirror, lights etc.  (see the pictures included)

We have completed most of the leveling work of the floors and had varying success with the desired effects.  The floors were only off a 1/2 " in some places but there were some troublesome ridges that we just couldn't take out without creating danger to other walls and structure so we decided to level the floors with plywood sub-flooring and shims.  Seems to work well and we're ready for the new tin roof.

Donald has already contracted to have a beautiful tin roof installed.  The roof is quite expensive but it will certainly help restore the house to the era of its creation.  Thanks Donald and Kay for the commitment.

We've purchased the flooring and we will have an Oak laminate flooring in the DR, Hall, Sun Room, Hall, BR(s) and Mud Room.  We'll keep the carpet in the LR and plan to tile the kitchen floor.

We've been busy preparing the LR, DR, and Kitchen for painting.  We have installed new blinds in the living room and have located all of the electrical and TV outlets.  The paint for all interior and exterior has been purchased and we are ready for some "help, help" painting for anyone interested.

Some of the pictures showing the progress are included in this post.  Look for more posts int the coming days and we promise to be more prompt with our updates.
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