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







Thursday, August 19, 2010

Half Way There,,,,,,,, The Saga of The Tin Roof

Well,
After three days of killer heat and a lot of hard work by the Rippond crew, the first half of the house is completed.

Uh Oh!!! wrong picture,  this is the old barn across the pond.  Some how it got in the line of pictures.

Anyway,,,,
Check out this baby!!!!!!!.  Now that's a tin roof man....... does it look good or what!?  The craftsmanship of the crew is outstanding. and the appearance is exceptional.

Here's another shot,,,, they start on the south side tomorrow and man is it looking good



We have made so much progress that Jane and I have moved into the house and had to move the motor home.  We forgot what the place looked like with the ole Adventurer in the driveway.


As much as we are Rv'ers, we are sooooo glad to be in the house.  The entire place is coming together and we're going to meet our Thanksgiving Day goal, by then some.  

Got a lot of help today from Donald and Kay and of course Jane works hard everyday.  Lots of more updates will be coming each day, so stay tuned.

Also, we have the help of two cats.  Pink Kitty (shown below) and White Kitty.  Jane couldn't think of names so she just started calling them by their collar color.  Works for them. Works for us.  This one loves to play in the house and enjoy the family, her sister is a hunter and a mess and does not care so much for the house.

They're part of the program now and we enjoy them.


More pictures to show "stuff" tomorrow and over the weekend.  We've finished our false beams for the living room and we'll be putting them up so we can complete the LR asap.

Hope you enjoy,,,, come to see us,,,,, and bring your work clothes.


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  1. kayc and robertdAugust 20, 2010 at 7:02 AM

    Good post,Carl! And thanks for giving me some credit for your hard work. (Really, I didn't do anything.}

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