Guilt

Procrastination is so great, isn't it? When you lose interest in whatever distraction project you started, or add too many steps to it to be able to finish, you get bonus guilt and plus side orders of shame and an awareness of wasted effort.

Which is to say:

The transplanted boxwoods out front look dead at the tips and

I'd like to get around to clipping away the very public proof of my gardening inadequacy but

I did too much research on pruners to have made a decision on one yet and

There isn't time to get out there anyway because

I AM WRITING, PEOPLE!

Thank goodness it's raining, or the poor plants wouldn't be getting watered at all.