Hi, Diane!
Zaterdag 30 Augustus 1997 Diane Bruck wrote to Maria Edelhausen:
Sorry for not replying earlier. I got your msg about a week ago, but lost it 
out of my eyes due to all the replies I got to my question about" How quick 
FIdonet goes ..." Since then msgs are coming quicker in here.
 DB> HI !!!  My family visited there many years ago. We were mostly in
 DB> Mones, Belgium with my brother and his family.  He was in the Army
 DB> stationed at the NATO Base.  WHAT A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY..!!!..
Whoow it's fine to read that you liked our country a lot. I know that many 
American are at the NATO base in Mons, but there are still other places where 
the US-Army is, here in Belgium.
 DB>  Welcome aboard here at
 DB> Portland, Oregon USA... If you receive a memo from a Ronda Eikenberry
 DB> that is one of my daughters that were there also.
So you live in the capital of Oregon! Am I right when I suppose that Portland 
has a similar climat as we have here in Belgium? Or is it already much colder 
at yours?  Belgium has a moderated sea-climat. Do you live in an house with 
garden or in an apartment?
Till now I didn't see the name of one of your daughter in this or another 
echo. Maybe somewhere later I'll cross them in an echo.
 DB> What part of Belgium are you living in?
I live in the Flanders, more specially in the east of the province Limburg, 
and our city Lanaken is very close to the Dutch bordertown Maastricht (10 
km). Our native language is Dutch.
I'm living in an house with a nice garden, full of flowers and vegetables. I 
like gardening, that's whu I am in this conference!
 DB> You will really enjoy this conference as there are loads of friendly
 DB> people here!! What other conferences are you in
For sure that I enjoy this conference. I'm already in here since more than 
half a year. Other conferences/echo's where I'm connected to are : 
HERBS-N-SUCH, COOKING, ASIAN_LINK, PENPAL (not available in the USA?) and 
several Belgian (Dutch-writing) echo's.
 DB> and I
 DB> wholeheartedly agree that the messages should be left there
 DB> longer..Maybe someone is on vacation or their computer might have gone
 DB> down like our and daughters does sometimes.  I have another daughter
 DB> that might even write to you sometimes.....
As I told above, msgs are now here in a more normal delay of 8 days and 
that's much more interesting to stay in a conference.
In your second msg you were asking about my favorite floweers.
I must say that I'm really fascinated in Passion FLowers, but here in Belgium 
it's only possible to grow the variety Passieflora Caerulea outside in the 
soil. Most of the other varieties must be kept in a container and go into the 
greenhouse during winter.
In the garden I've many different flowers so that in each season something is 
flowering. Some time ago I was making a list of the plants in my garden for 
th Belgian garden echo. I'll try to find it back and translate it for this 
echo.
Read you later.
Greetings
      Maria
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