Cracker Barrel Eastern Shore

We have been wishing for a Cracker Barrel within 30-45 minutes drive.  Since the billboard announcement of the opening for Fall 2008, we have been patiently waiting for the day.  After a long time, they opened November 18, 2008.  We had dinner there last weekend and they were packed! Thankfully, we were seated right away.
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November 29th, 2008 by The Phoenix 

Congratulations to Maryland’s Team @ the Solar Decathlon 2007!

The Solar Decathlon winners were announced today and among 20  deserving universities chosen world wide to compete by the US Department of Energy, University of Maryland won 2nd place beating Cornell, MIT, Duke and other universities! I should have known about this earlier this week so that I could have at least [...]

October 19th, 2007 by The Phoenix 

Hunan Manor in Columbia, Maryland

Hunan Manor in Columbia, Maryland

I’ve been meaning to set-up a food blog but I decided to put it in this blog since maintaining different blogs is a full time deal. My husband and I are usually frugal with alot of things by average working American standards but when it comes to food we look for high [...]

July 30th, 2007 by The Phoenix 

Bucolic Chic: Maple Lawn, Maryland

Bucolic Chic:  Maple Lawn, Maryland

I needed to take photos of cows for an article I’m working on and as we were driving to the farm, on the way we passed by a newly built mall center and decided to check it out after the cows’ pictures have been taken. One minute drive away from the Maple Lawn Farm was [...]

July 9th, 2007 by The Phoenix