u/markofdestiny1111

Hey all! First post here 😅

I honestly didn’t expect to want an Ascent. I have had two Outbacks, a 1999 and a 2014. I’ve been dreaming about getting a Crosstrek for a few years now & knew my Outback was getting to the point where I should trade in…

I test drove a Crosstrek and an Ascent, since my husband was interested in its towing capacity. We knew we wanted a Crosstrek and an Ascent eventually, but since I was partial to the Crosstrek, I didn’t think I’d enjoy the Ascent as much as I did. I freaking loved it and couldn’t stop thinking about it after driving it. So much so that I began doing hours of searching for gently used Ascents (2024 or 2025) in my area.

I’ve never consistently driven a vehicle this large, but I don’t mind its size. All the features are so futuristic and amazing (which I know a newer Crosstrek would have had as well). But I just cannot get over this car. The fact that it bypassed my dream car is insane to me, since the Crosstrek has been on my vision board for years.

I don’t really have any purpose for posting this, other than the fact that I’m super happy with this vehicle. I’ve had it almost a week now and I keep wanting to just go drive around after work (I always hated night driving but these headlights are so insane that I don’t mind night driving now).

My husband and I are about to take a 1-week trip to some national parks and we are sooo excited to have this car to do it in. I kid you not, even my dog seems to love it. 🤣

I’m pretty sure we’ll just end up with two Subaru Ascents when it’s time to trade in hubby’s car because I don’t know if I’d want the Crosstrek now 😅😅

I’ve tried it all (except GLP1s). Low carb. No dairy or gluten or sugar. Cycle syncing. Working out a ton. Doing low-impact exercises. Weight lifting. Walking multiple times a day. Hundreds of dollars on supplements. I’ve lowered my stress levels significantly.

I hate that the recommendations for PCOS are walk 3X a day after meals, plate method, low carb, take 5 different supplements throughout the day, etc etc etc

So this thing that I got from being chronically stressed requires me to do 182973 stressful things to reverse?

I’m scared of GLP1s because I already have stomach issues but I’m tired and I just can’t keep fighting this hard all the time to see barely 5lbs of change.

Saw this on Facebook, sharing here to spread the word!

I accidentally bought untreated wood and I’m going to put together a window greenhouse… I want to paint it kind of like this but ideally I’d like to paint the wood a fun color as well.

Foolishly, I bought Thompson’s Waterseal, thinking I could use it as a clear coat before painting the wood, or use it after painting the wood.

Any ideas on what I should do to prolong the life of the wood? I can’t really return the wood at this point, but I could return the Thompson’s WS.

Worst case scenario, I’ll only paint the windows.

Red line is where I want to put the fence, just around the back yard.

I have been told there is drain field in the back by where the clothes line is (which is where my property ends) but not confirmed. Would I be safe to dig holes for my fence here?

I did call Mis-dig and had them stake the yard for electrical and gas lines so I’m at least cleared there!

I don’t know if anyone has had this happen, but I went to open the app today and it had my old card connected (from before I moved cities).

I deleted the old card info and put my new card info back in and it won’t let me log in. It tells me it will open a different website to log in, which is what it normally does. I log into my library with my card info and then it doesn’t move the info back to the Libby app and gives me an error code.

You can see it’s clearly logging me into my library account??!?

Has this happened to you? How did you resolve it!? I tried restarting my phone, and I deleted the app and reinstalled it. There are no updates to install.

Please help me, I am going to scream 😭