Last summer I started knitting my second sweater ever, got to a point and set it aside. Last week I found some yarn I'd really like to make up, but I am determined to finish the current project before starting a new one, so I resolved to finish it.

When I got it together the design of the sleeves was very full, lots of material. The effect when I put it on was like the upper arms of someone who lost 200 pounds after weight loss surgery. Actually, it might work very well for that particular someone because there would be lots of coverage for that flab, and people might be fooled into thinking all those underarm folds were just the way the clothing fit.

And no, before you suggest it, I'm not going to wear it and pretend that I shed hundreds of pounds in the last year.

But I can't stand it, so I took it apart and am starting over on the sleeves. Fortunately I have plenty of extra yarn so that's not a worry. I just hope the second try works out. If it doesn't, that's the end of it unless I can get the whole thing to unravel so I could use it for a whole new sweater. For some reason when I tried to unravel the old sleeves, it didn't work smoothly.

Okay, this is for the rest of you who don't care about knitting: our cabin guest was returning home the other night at 1 am, and saw a mother bear and cub going through our trash bin. One of them was inside the tipped over container and trash was all over the driveway. We're sorry they found us because now we have to be careful about when we put the trash in the bin. There's no food in our own trash because we compost, but our cabin guests generate tons of trash with food scraps in it.