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







Saturday, June 25, 2011

Curb Appeal,,,,, Its Getting Better

Well, the summer is here, the tomatoes are coming in and the flowers and grass are blooming.
Thought you might want to see an updated frontal shot of the place compared to the original pictures in the beginning of the blog.

We are so blessed to be here, we have enjoyed every minute of our efforts here.  Donald and Kay, Mark and Dawn, Donna and Lisa have all made us feel welcome and have been so gracious to us.

Lots of work left to be done, but, we're getting there.

Remember what it looked like back in November 2009?  Great opportunity and lots of creativity could be used.  Well, speaking for the work and leaving the creativity to Jane and Kay, the below is only the beginning or the before.

The front looks a little different doesn't it?  Jane's flower beds, new grass on the north side and a little paint on the front begins the process.


Below is a nice "short"bed on the north side of the front yard.  You can see the new bermuda grass on the right side of the flower bed.  Takes a lot of time to  cut and rake that puppy but it sure is pretty.


Just in case you couldn't see the sunflower plants in the aboe 

Looks pretty good from the road too.  A nice semicircular flower bed divides the large front yard from Curry Road. A lot more flowers down the north side, roses down the south side and "Wa-La",,,, pretty.

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