Putting it off

The deadline to apply for an antelope tag is only a couple of days away. I always wait until the very last minute.

It brings me luck.

Or at least I tell myself it does.

My wife says I simply put things off because I’m a procrastinator.

She may be right. I didn’t draw a tag last year.

I also put off buying a new bilge pump for the boat this spring and nearly paid dearly for it.

The weather forecast called for strong thunderstorms and damaging hail last weekend, but instead of pulling the boat out of the water I left it tied to the dock.

“We’ll pull it out tomorrow,” I told Barb. �...