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, September 1, 2010

August is Over,,,,,Whewwww!!!!!


Well, the LR is all "cut in" and completed.  Five doors and a lot of wood work made this one a tough paint job, but ole Jane "gotter done".

Looks great and we're now started on the DR.  The ceiling has been stabilized and we're ready to start the paint and and then the floors.  Nothing for us now,,,








Ever wonder what Donald Curry looks like?  Well we finally caught him out of the chicken houses, off the hay baler and off the work truck and here he is.  Donald was down supervising the scrapping and peeling we're doing on the outside of the house.  Now that Donald's had the roof put on, he's roaring to get the outside painted and so are we.    Our plan is to pressure wash the entire exterior, replace the boards that need attention and then paint the entire house outside.

Lots of work but it sure is fun.  Want to have some fun?,,, we'll share.....



We're using Mark Curry's "water cannon" to pressure wash the house.   This baby can shoot water alway across the county.  We have to be careful when we pressure wash that we don't just blow the boards off and wet the inside of the house.

This thing will save at least two weeks of scrapping and preparation work so, again, thanks to the tractors, and tractor owner/drivers we can keep our pace.




By the way, for all of our RV friends and followers, we have finally moved the RV to its final resting place where it can be used by anyone visiting or if you bring your own RV you can hook up to the 50 AMP service with sewer.  Rent will be cheap,,,, like free so come see us.









We're also getting more info on some of the local attractions and we'll be blogging about some of that in the future just to keep your attention.

"The Bend" will be the first one to get exposed.  You'll find it interesting and fun so come back soon.

"THATS ALL FOLKS''''''(for now)
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)