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







Friday, September 17, 2010

Painting Has Begun

They say a picture is worth a 1,000 words. well, here's about three thousand words I don't have to say.

Jane did the front porch and does it look great or what?











The side of the house is long, high and really needed a lot of paint. but, thanks to a lot of help its getting there.










Tommy the golf course designer came back.  He showed up and wanted food.  So, we fed and he painted and painted and ate and ate and painted and ate,,,, you get the idea.   His new name is "Touch Up Tommy" and he earned every bit of it.  Here he does some of his best work on the eaves.
















On the other hand, I prefer to just give direction, drive the tractor and make fun of "Touch Up Tommy".   By the way the blue thing, that's Touch Up Tommy's cape.  (It goes with his ear rings and tongue jewelry)

No kidding, we could not have gotten this far without ole Touch Up Tommy.







By the way, if you look close you'll see two deer at the waters edge.  They wanted to paint too but they couldn't  hold the brushes.

God is good, this is fun and we hope you enjoy the progress reports.
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