Living On Curry Road: South side of the house completed

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, October 22, 2010

South side of the house completed

Well,

We finally got the south side of the house painted and it looks as good to us as the north side and the front of the house.

We have also finished the front porch by rebuilding and painting the porch columns and the concrete platforms that they rest on. The only thing left is the porch floor which once everyone agrees on what we are going to do with the floor remodeling, we'll finish that off in short time.

As a "catch up" bit of info, we have all but completed our living room redesign and remodel and now have a nice antique mirror thanks to Margie to help in the living room. We will be completed when we finish out he mantel we will custom build.

We have been a little delayed in our work due to some heavy fishing arranged by Donald Curry. I had to leave the picture large enough so you could see the results of his skills and efforts. Yep, that's a trophy bream caught by the master himself!

No, actually Donald has lead several fishing trips lately and we've all had a great time. We've fished the banks of the Bayou Meto, the Saline River and Fort Morgan. We all have caught some really nice bass and Donald has been able to boat several very large crappie. Donald always gets the best help from Kay for the cleaning process.