Living On Curry Road: How About This New Front Porch

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 28, 2011

How About This New Front Porch

We finally got back around to the front porch in our projects. Our entire process was to work on and complete this remodeling project based on our required needs and our most desired wants. As you may remember we started with the bathroom, because, well our priorities were arranged to take care of the daily issues and needs. (Duh!) Then we moved on to the living room, dining room and kitchen, again our priority needs. Recently we posted the sun room completion and that was really one of our most desired "wants'. Finally, we have gotten to another of our "wants", the front porch.

Now we can have a party on the front porch. We enjoy sitting on this porch each morning at sunrise and evening at sunset. Its the best place in the world to start a day and finishing a day. Really, if we do this everyday, we never have a bad day.

We still have a few things to do to get the finished look we want but there is plenty of room for everybody to come and sit with us and enjoy the moment. We will be completing the walkway and steps in the next few days but we're so proud of this part we wanted to show it. We'll actually pour a semicircle platform where the step is located now and then add a brick step to get up on the porch.

We also have two swings on the porch and that makes a real good space even better.

Winter's coming, deer season is around the corner and thanksgiving is not that far away. Come see us and we'll see that you have plenty to eat.

(PS How bout them Cardinals?)