"On the fourth day...

MT cut the asparagus."

When I wasn't trying to fit in a week's worth of home-cleaning -failing into one day along with the charity H4H stool thing and writers workshop, I decided to cook a pot of beans. My father came to me and said the asparagus needed cut so, I ran out and did that, too. -I'm a good doobie...and he's Pa Kettle

•For city-folk, here's how asparagus grows (in spring, later it grows up over my head and gets all feathery-looking).

Cut it with a bit left sticking out of the ground.

Then, take your "mess of asparagus"don't know if that term is used outside of the Ozarks or not but it basically means enough food for a meal; ie: "She brought a mess of fish to her mother." inside and proceed to look for anything untoward.

Particularly in our area (perhaps everywhere), there are these

wee black things on some stalks of asparagus; they're bug eggs or something and they're really stuck on well. It's better to cut them off or toss the whole thing, as shown.

Cleaned and ready to cook: I like to cut mine down farther but it ruins the "prettiness" of the whole stalks so, I stopped taking shots there.

•And here's the state of the herbs (and lettuce):