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Soren 🌱 they/them

@sorenable.bsky.social

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A genderfluid wordsmith & artist w/ spicy neurologies & insatiable curiosities. Autism, cPTSD, cyclothymia, OCD & my SpIns make up who I am. Ace/aro. I like to garden, read, make things & nap. Be kind. ✨🪴📗🪼🪲🍄‍🟫🌻✨ linktr.ee/sorenable

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 4d

So I did get notice last week that the art scholarship program this winter had to be canceled due to a lack of funding! They’re hoping to hold it again in spring. There’s a giving spree happening Nov 6th, so if you feel called to support my community, please do. www.adamscountycf.org/grants-schol...

2025 Adams County Community Foundation Giving Spree – Adams County Community Foundation (PA)

www.adamscountycf.org

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 8h

Yahoo! Fully support this effort
I loooove a bit o’green myself

Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 11h

Fantastic!! 🌱

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 12h

Tell that ole brain to hush-up! Aw, I'm so sorry, hang in there 🫂

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 13h

I tell my therapist often that I "saved" something to tell her first lol

Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 13h

It's so much fun! If you can, definitely try! I know lots of container and balcony gardeners too 🙌

Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 13h

Deep empathy! I hope your hair grows *extra* fast for ya 🤞

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 14h

All done, whew! Lots of peppers, some beets were ready & the rest of the squashes. All three of the peppers and my tender perennials have been potted up. I’ll try to find places inside for them. Land folk may let me use their basement? Still have to move the pond plants & dig up the elephant ear. 🌱

I’m pretty tired so the alt text is gonna be minimal. This is me holding a pepper plant that has had most of its tender branches and leaves chopped off of it. This is how you overwinter them.

The finished garden hall, two baskets of squashes beans and peppers, three pots of pepper plants, ready to overwinter, and a whole bunch of beetroots

Here are the pepper plants along with my tender perennials, sitting on my deck steps, warming up, I have Lantana, cigar plant, send geranium, rosemary and more

My kitchen island inside with tea towels on it, and the newly washed vegetables, including sheet of peppers, immature orange bell peppers, pattypan squash, baby zucchini, and immature orange snacking peppers

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 14h

It really is!

Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 17h

I would agree! It’s a bit of a new thing for me, so we’ll see how it goes.

Aw, that sounds very lovely, enjoy your relaxing Friday and weekend! 🙌

Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 17h

This is fun to look at!

Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 17h

Morning, everyone. It frosted last night! I was not prepared. 🥲 After the sun comes out, I’ll go around and pick all the veggies & pull up the pepper plants, pot, and store them inside. Whew! Busy little day ahead, but all fun things. Hope everyone takes time to be good to themselves today. ❄️ ☀️

Picture facing downward of me and my sweatpants and hoodie and green boots standing in the grass holding my green coffee cup full of coffee the grass is completely frosted!

My hand holding the icy crunchy patty pan, squash leaves, they look like velvet

A picture of the delicate lacey frosted leaves of the yellow marigold

A picture of the chicken run at sunrise. The grass is all whitish blue and icy, the chickens are clustered around the fence, eating their scratch that I just gave them.

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 17h

That’s going to be a 👌 soup

Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 17h

All the time 😂 other people don’t??

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 17h

Good morning ☺️

Today I have therapy, a crafting event at the library, and then a first annual witches tea with my librarian friend and our new coven. Pretty full day for me!

What are you up to today?

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 1d

Lol same sometimes 😅

Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 1d

I hate bonkin’ my noggin’ too. Check out how I just fixed that problem in my laundry room hehe

A picture of a shelf over a laundry machine, and a pool noodle has been sliced down, the middle chunk taken out of it, and then wrapped around the edge of the shelf. Noggin protected!

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 1d

Yummy dinner & food prep accomplished! This was a make-it-up-as-you-go effort which amounted to a delightfully creamy chicken (frozen, pre-grilled), baby potato & garden zucchini soup. So good! Made 5 servings, froze 2. New dollar store no-salt spice mix (ie Mrs. Dash) really came in clutch too. 🧑‍🍳

A big old pot of soup! Chicken, baby, yellow potatoes, cut up, zucchini quarter and sliced, some carrots, and a creamy soup base

Here’s me holding my bowl of soup for dinner, and then I have these new 2 cup silicone square meal prep containers with lids! They’re great, they also also have reinforcement around the edge so that they don’t flop all over the place, these can come in real handy And it’s great now that I have a dishwasher so I don’t have to wash this kind of thing by hand either

My hand holding spice mix shaker bottle
SALT FREE SEASONING by Supreme Traditions

My hand holding the same bottle, but turned around so that you can read the ingredients

INGREDIENTS: GRANULATED
GARLIC, MINCED ONION, ORANGE PEEL, BLACK PEPPER, CITRIC ACID, CRUSHED RED PEPPER, PARSLEY FLAKES, LEMON OIL

Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 1d

Believe me, I get it haha

Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 1d

Very nice 👌 ✨

Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 1d

Makes sense to me 😂

Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 1d

Cute little shore birds! I love them.

Egrets always remind me of Anna Wintour for some reason lol.

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 1d

I did this, it worked (as it always does) and I was able to reach a resolution on a challenging problem that I’ve been facing.

Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 1d

This might be one of the best things I’ve ever found for $1.75. Very much “Pollyanna” vibes, but that’s me anyway. ☺️

Cool thing is, my mother taught me this technique when I was a child. It works! If you ask yourself why 7 times, and answer honestly, you will get to the bottom of your problem.

A picture of a long, large yellow card box, and in it are dozens of yellow cards, it’s part of a 365 daily prompts challenge called better than yesterday. The card for today says, “but why?”

Here’s me showing the back of the card that says:

#BetterThanYesterday365
THINK ABOUT SOMETHING
THAT'S MAKING YOU ANXIOUS. NOW ASK YOURSELF WHY AND ANSWER. KEEP REPEATING THE PROCESS UNTIL YOU GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THE ISSUE.
The more self-aware you are, the more equipped you are to remain positive and energetic.

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 1d

The bamboo forest is slowly regrowing. 🎋

Take a picture of a lazy little creek with stones scattered across the middle of it so you can go down the bank and across the water into the bamboo forest that had died back earlier this spring but it’s slowly regrowing

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 1d

Tis the season, when I have to hold myself back from turning the shower handle to: 🔥🥵👹🐦‍🔥💥☄️🥊⛽️🏜️

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · 1d

Yum! I love salted caramel anything

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