You can peel stalks up to a day before cooking and store them wrapped in damp paper towels in the vegetable bin of the refrigerator. Conventional asparagus wisdom says snapping the spear breaks away the tough, fibrous end. This works well when harvesting in the field, but in the kitchen it's a sorry waste of good food.
Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017. A total solar eclipse will take place on Monday, August 21, 2017. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.
Full solar eclipse will take place in 2017. The path of the total solar eclipse coming on August 21, 2017 can be found online at https://go.nasa.gov/2ibqRIk. You can see a partial eclipse, where the moon covers only a part of the sun, anywhere in North America.