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







Wednesday, August 18, 2010

BedRoom Almost completed

 





The bedroom is close to being completed.  Previous posts described the paint colors and all but this one has the completed floor and furniture located.  The room turned out perfect thanks to the furniture from Donna in her efforts to re-do her home in Little Rock.  Thanks Donna and the rest of the furniture will be demonstrated in upcoming posts.

Also, the big day has arrived.  The new tin roof is being installed as we speak.  Larry Rippond and  his crew get here every morning at 5:30 AM and start their day.  Its been so hot they have to stop a noon but they can really get a lot done in that period of time.

The old house's roof was in pretty bad shape.  Donald and Kay determined there would be a new roof and,  here it goes.  We took a "before" picture just so you could appreciate the decision and the work.


Larry and his crew of Mark Rippond (his son) Cole Rippond (nephew) and Greg plan their attack early Monday morning. 



Then the work begins.   Roof man is on the top replacing the bad decking and "barge" boards so they can even begin to install the new roof.


After pulling off the old shingles, replacing and rebuilding the decking, etc. finally the first piece of tin goes on.  This is the most important part of the process and must be perfectly placed and aligned so the remainder of the roof looks "square" and performs the task of a roof.


After two days they have partially covered the north side of the house with tin.  You'll have to wait until tomorrow to see the great new look sense my camera time is limited and I'm on to other things myself.

Boy will this be a great improvement.  

By the way,  Donald keeps reminding me that the roof is only done when the house is painted and guess has that job.  Pressure washing the old paint off, letting it dry, then painting the whole dern house awaits yours truly and my faithful companion.   We're ready to start so, stay tuned.







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