Welcome friends to this week’s Share Your Style #397! I am so glad you have stopped by today as we have a bunch of fun features to share with you, including this month’s Pinterest Challenge ~ which mine is shared just below. Let’s take a look, shall we?
I am Barbara Chapman and I’d love it if you’d follow me here on my blog and on any of my other social media sites, too. Thank you!💜
I am back painting in the house after Mr. Ethereal and I finished up fixing Gramma’s sprinklers, planting six new Texas sage/barometer bushes, and running drip irrigation lines for those plants out in her front flower bed. This was accomplished over the past three or four weekends and we are glad to have that project behind us! It’s just too hot to play outdoors at the moment, lol.
I linked a couple of my older wreath-type posts down in the party, in case you’d like even more inspiration. Here we go…
Here’s what I shared this past week atFrench Ethereal…
Debbie from Debbie-Dabble Blog brings us her 2023 summertime porch decorating this time with Mid-Summer Front Porch Refresh. Love the bright colors with the b&w!!!
Oh my! Claire Justine OXOX has created the perfect recipe for summertime fêtes ~ Quick and Easy to Make Vegan Frosted Lemon Cake. Yum!!!Newcomer Camiel from Siezoenenblog (“Seasons,” or a play-on-word: “Seasoning” Blog — my best guess!) brings us this delightful fish recipe from the Netherlands ~ “Sea Bass [Cooked} on Cedar on the Kamado [BBQ]” — Zeebaars op Cederhout van de Kamado.Our final feature for this week comes from Estelle over at Homemade on a Weeknight who shared her flock of feathered friends ~ Greetings from the Coop! Really cute story; you need to go check out her babies!!!
Thank You so much to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to everyone for always promoting Share Your Style on your blog and on your social media channels! I do see it when I stop by and I appreciate the love. 💜
If you’d like to follow my Share Your Style board on Pinterest I’d appreciate it, thank you! I do post all of the featured posts from each week’s SYS there plus usually other photos from those posts to my boards.💜 Thanks so much!!! If you are new to French Ethereal, I hope you will think about subscribing to my blog.
Welcome to this week’s Share Your Style #392, dear friends! Hubby and I are traveling today so this is going up while I’m on the road. 🙂 Let’s check out this week’s features!
I am Barbara Chapman and I’d love it if you’d follow me here on my blog and on any of my other social media sites, too. Thank you!💜
Did you have a nice Father’s Day? Mr. Ethereal and I have been busting ourselves working on setting up micro-sprinklers out in the backyard. He is also noodling fixing our #1 sprinkler line as one of the backyard oak trees has “eaten” the valve, the pipes, and now we have to move the whole thing. We didn’t even bbq… But we did manage to have some good take-out while messing around for four days straight getting this all done!
I have been hand-watering everything, including watering the inside of the yard. Spring rains have pretty much stopped, so it’s imperative we get the system up and running for the rest of the grass, which is now getting no water on the other side of the fence… Thankfully, Mr. Ethereal is handy! 🙂
This week we have a ton more patriotic ideas to share with the 4th of July holiday just around the corner… 🙂
Thank you for all of your kind thoughts and prayers for us with the loss of Yoda. He was my walking buddy for most of his 18 years. I realized that we got him in October of 2005 and he was between 5 mos. and 1 1/2 years old, at the time. He grew after we got him, so I always believed he was younger. We gave him a March birthday. So he was 18 years old, not 17. 😉
This is a good photograph of Yoda when he was still healthy back in 2021. He still loved going for walks then!
Let’s see what going on over here at French Ethereal…
Here’s what I shared this past week atFrench Ethereal…
Setting a Patriotic Tea Table ~ part of the Flag Day Tea I had at our house for my current boss, a coworker, one of our favorite subs, and my mother-in-law. Coming out soon!
And here are this week’s featured posts…
OMGosh! DeeDee from Clover House got busy painting this adorable shed!!! Totally in love with the stripes ~ perfect this patriotic theme! I Painted Stripes on My Shed!! Well done!!!
Sandra from Come to Dinner at Eight shares another of her stunning tables with us in this ethereal post ~ A Summer of Colors. Love the seafoam greens!!!
Penny of Penny’s Treasures shares this adorable vignette and her “girl” in this fun post Creating a Garden Lady for My Front Porch. Love “her” with all the soft patriotic color!!
Welcome to newcomer Melynda from Scratch Made Food for Hungry People who shares this yummy Sour Creme Beet Salad. Delicious and perfect for all our outdoor summertime fêtes!
***Sorry the photo is blurry! The original was very small to start and blowing it up made it grainy.
Thank You so much to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to everyone for always promoting Share Your Style on your blog and on your social media channels! I do see it when I stop by and I appreciate the love. 💜
If you’d like to follow my Share Your Style board on Pinterest I’d appreciate it, thank you! I do post all of the featured posts from each week’s SYS there plus usually other photos from those posts to my boards.💜 Thanks so much!!! If you are new to French Ethereal, I hope you will think about subscribing to my blog.
Happy Sunday evening, friends! We had a nice weekend working outside just tidying up some of the garden, pulling weeds out on the south side, cutting back the iris leaves (which were getting really untidy!) in the bed around the backyard oak, and tidying up the front flower bed…
Afterwards, I prepped the roast…
I stopped by the grocery on Friday afternoon and the butcher was just putting out several racks of roasts, so I said to him, “I’ll be happy to alleviate you of one of those!” We talked a bit more and I mentioned that this would be a perfect dinner for the weekend.
So glad I cooked this in the oven here this afternoon! It turned out perfectly…
Aunt Nellie’s Pot Roast
Take a rump or watermelon roast, poke it all over and rub in meat tenderizer (I don’t do this anymore, I just poke it with our meat fork and shake on salt, pepper, and Mrs. Dash seasoning).
Cook in a cast iron skillet in the oven at 275 deg. F., fat side up, for 1 hour.
After an hour, add 2 1/2 cups (or more) water to the skillet (spoon over roast several times), add potatoes and onion cut up. Turn up heat to 350 degrees, and cook for about 1 1/2 hours more ~ for a 3 lb. roast. Check at 1 hour and cook to your liking.
(***Add uncooked cut up potatoes when you first turn up the heat, then add the green beans ~ or a partial bag of carrots and peas ~ during the last 45 minutes.)
Make a delicious brown gravy with the cracklings in the pan, if so desired.
Enjoy!!!
What to do with the leftovers…
I cut two slices of the roast off and cut them into pieces for soup this week. I froze the rest of the roast along with some of the potatoes and green beans with a little of the juices for a future dinner.
Yum!!! First two good days of early fall with much lower humidity ~ perfect weather for indoor cooking in the oven!
Setting the table with fall in mind
I went looking for placemats for a casual dinner for Mr. Ethereal and myself, since it’s just us two anymore. I found these cute round pumpkin mats in my stack in the laundry room closet. They are reversible and I think I found them at HomeGoods back several years ago.
Paired with my favorite white plates, antique lace and linen napkins, and the newish white-handled flatware I picked up at Judithof Botanic Bleu‘s sale last December, I love this fun dinnerware combination for our tablescape!
The soft hues of faux bittersweet pair well with the pale greens of dried panicle hydrangeas, golden wheat stems and dried roses…
The hurricane lamps were still sitting out from this spring mantel post, so I pulled them into our tablescape. I really like the soft glow they give off and the tarnished brass look of the candleholders!
I liked using them so much that I have been using them on and off the mantel all summer. Really, they have Christmas trees on them but from far away you really can’t tell. 😉
Another photograph of the little mini bouquet of dried pretties!
And as promised…
A sneak peek at the new chandy! Hubby hung it for me late this morning and suggested I run out and pick up tacos for lunch (Taco Bell is about a mile or so down the main road). So while I went by our Walmart grocery and rounded up a bag of Idaho spuds for tonight’s dinner, then went through the drive-thru for tacos…
Mr. Ethereal worked his magic taking down the more modern drum chandelier and installed this pretty more-antique-style chandy which I love so much better!
And this was our delicious pot roast dinner… Served with roasted russet potatoes and green beans cooked in the same water as the roast.
You’ll just have to come back Tuesday to see the rest of the chandelier! 😉
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
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