Living On Curry Road: Check Out The Landscaping and "Yard Work"

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

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Check Out The Landscaping and "Yard Work"

Remember this picture of the Curry Home the day we we blessed to come down here?

Well, Jane's been busy and I've been a help'n and boy does the yard look alive. As you can see below we added two flower beds down the main entrance walk and you may not be able to tell but we added Zoysia grass on both sides of the walk. This part of the front yard doesn't get enough sunlight, thanks to the 90' plus tall Oak tree, so we sowed the Zoysia grass for this part. The mulch was purchased from a local saw mill that mills Cypress wood and has a huge chipper. Pretty good stuff and we don't get it from Walmart.

Jane also required a flower bed on the north side of the front yard so we just put'er in. Soon, all these flowers showed up and popped right out of the ground. (Ya right) Hours of digging, scratching and stuff later, its looks very good.

In front of the tall Oak tree and just off the road we also built a semicircle planter bed to help define the drive way and to add a special appeal for the often discussed "Curb Appeal". Only problem is the only curb we have is when "Tubby" comes by with the grader to smooth out the road. Oh well, it looks great anyway. Where's Tubby when you need him.

We also gave Jane another area to work on to help cover up the butane tank. She's well on her way and the result completes the north side appearance. She's really pretty good at this stuff!