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Welcome to Leslie Mikesell Wood's family fun website - - - - - For all our Allen, Aller, Binder, Dean, Erlandson, Mikesell, Winters, Wood and all our other related kin, all our kissin cousins - - - - - A place for us to preserve the past and keep in touch with each other now.






Hi family, welcome to our new "Family Fun" website.
Our goal is to build a family group website with clean, fun & safe pages for all our family, from youngest to oldest, where we can learn our family history and keep in touch with each other.

If you are related to any of our families, click on "Join this Group!" at the top of the right side menu. After you have joined and been approved and are signed in, click on "Post" at the very top right of the webpage. From there you can add to our message board/blog, photos, video's, music, events to our Calendar, reviews, links, recipes, or leave a note.

See links for our pages, photos and obituaries at the bottom of this page.

See the boxes, at the bottom of your screen, for all that you can do here.





"Tips for using this website"  

Thanks for being patient..

Please join and help keep our website alive.

e-mail Leslie Mikesell Wood if you have any problems or opinions.



 Click on the links below to go to our pages and obituaries. More links will be added asap.

"Our Pages" Menu Links:

Our What's New Page
Our Achievements and Honors
Please Add To Our Prayer List
Our baby photos
Our family photo albums, please add your photos
Our Writers, poems by family members, with photos
Our Recipes
Our Front Porch 2002, family conversations.
Our Front Porch 2003, family conversations.
Index to our message board [Still under construction]

Our "for fun" pages:
AAADD Know The Symptoms
Our Favorite Websites
Our Family Goofs, Bloopers and Blunderz
Kids Corner
Kissin Kuzin
Over the Hill thread
The Silly Story Thread
Burma-Shave road sign thread

Allen Family:
Conrad Allen, page 1
Conrad Allen page 2
Photo of Elizabeth "Eliza" (Davids) Nielsen, Conrad S. Allen's mother
My Childhood As I Remember It, by Ceathel Allen
Greetings from London, by Greg, and also Gerri's trip to Europe, 2004
Our Allen Family's Scots-Irish Heritage by Leslie Mikesell Wood
Allen Family Records of Joy May Allen Thomason, page 1, page 2

Mikesell Family:
Jefferson "Jeff" Osborn Mikesell", biography by Betty Mikesell Erlandson
"My Dad" Jefferson Osborn Mikesell, by Leslie Mikesell Wood
Florence Vivien Allen Mikesell, biography by Leslie Mikesell Wood
Ernest Osborn Mikesell
The Prodigal Son, by Ernest O. Mikesell
Betty Lou Mikesell Erlandson:
Thoughts On My Life by Betty Lou Mikesell Erlandson
Betty and Evan Erlandson's 50th Wedding Anniversary
Betty and Evan Erlandson's 50th wedding anniversary reception photos.
Betty and Evan Erlandson's 50th Wedding Anniversary, tribute page with photos.
Betty and Evan, by Della Mikesell Binder
Betty, by Thelma Mikesell Winters
Memories I have of my sister Betty, by Leslie Mikesell Wood
Evan Erlandson, by son Jim Erlandson
The Call, poem by Betty Mikesell Erlandson
My Testimony, story by Betty Mikesell Erlandson
The Ballad of the Unidentified Flying Canoe, by Jim Erlandson
Ingredients, a short story by Jim Erlandson
The Spirit of the Christmas Season, an article by Jim Erlandson
James Allen "Jim" Mikesell:
James Allen Mikesell, page 1
James Allen Mikesell, page 2
Wilma Martinson Mikesell, 1927-2002
A Psalm of Praise" by Jared Musgrove
Della Ann Mikesell Binder:
Autobiography of Della Ann Mikesell Binder, page 1
page 2
page 3
page 4
Counting My Blessings Again, by Della Ann Mikesell Binder
Thelma Florence Mikesell Winters
My Life, by Thelma Mikesell Winters
"Some Memories", by Wayne Winters
Ginny Winters paints her patriotic garage, photos
Ginny's Journal, trip to Poland, page 1
page 2
page 3
page 4
page 5
Amy In Asia, by Amy Mirus, page 1
Amy in Asia, page 2
Amy in Asia, page 3
Leslie Arlene Mikesell Wood
About Leslie

Standley Family:
Elizabeth Standley Osborn Benson, 3 pages
Standley Family photo album

Our Obituary Index

OUR OBITUARIES:Our Allen family related obituaries
Our Anderson family related obituaries
Our Mikesell family related obituaries, page 1
Our Mikesell famly related obituaries, page 2
Our Mikesell famly related obituaries, page 3
Our Mikesell famly related obituaries, page 4
Our Standley obituaries
Our Osborn obituaries

Our family gravestone photos





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Wood Family Moves Graveyard in Hedgesville

Boyd Wood and daughter Sheryl went to court to have the old Wood family cemetery restored after finding out it was being destroyed. After years of court battles, the judge decided Boyd's ancestors and other deceased family members should be moved to a nearby cemetery that had a Wood family plot where other family members were buried. This was done on Tuesday, September 26, 2011 and a Hagerstown Maryland TV station filmed this video. Boyd, his sister Grace Wood Householder and cousin Don Wood are on the video.

AAADD- KNOW THE SYMPTOMS.....

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AAADD- KNOW THE SYMPTOMS.....


Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Somehow I feel better, even though I have it!! 


Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - 

Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. 


This is how it manifests itself:

I decide to water my garden.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.

As I head towards the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I picked up from the mailman earlier.

I decide to go through it before I wash the car.

I put my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the recycling box under the table, and notice that the recycling box is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the recycling first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the recycling paper anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my checkbook off the table and notice that there is only one check left.

My extra checks are in the desk in my study, 
So I go into the house to my desk where
I find the cup of coffee I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks but first I need to push the coffee aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The coffee is getting cold, and I decide to make another cup..

As I head toward the kitchen with the cold coffee, a vase of flowers on the worktop catches my eye - the flowers need water.

I put the coffee on the worktop and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers..

I put the glasses back down on the worktop, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote control. Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.

So, I put the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.

Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day:

The car isn't washed

The bills aren't paid

There is a cold cup of coffee sitting on the kitchen work-surface

The flowers don't have enough water,

There is still only 1 check in my checkbook,

I can't find the remote,

I can't find my glasses,

And I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all  day and I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.....

Do me a favor. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I can't remember who the heck I've sent it to.

Don't laugh - if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!

 

Jim Erlandson, a member of the group "Snake Oil".

http://www.snake-oil.de/english/theband.htm
JIM ERLANDSON, Snake Oil's newest member, sings and plays mandolin, banjo, guitar, harmonica, jews harp and anything he can lay hands on. He was born in 1948 to a musical family - his father, uncle and grandmother had a song and dance act in vaudeville. Jim played accordion from age 5, the trumpet in high school and then added a variety of instruments playing Dixieland Jazz, Scandinavian and American folk music. Jim and his wife Kathy helped found the Spokane Folklore Society and the Spokane Street Fair in the 70's, then moved to Olympia to work as a social program manager for the state. His hobbies include fishing, home brewing, and collecting musical instruments and old `78 records.

Jared Erlandson | Seattle, WA | Folk / Post modern lo-fi / Rock | Music, Lyrics, Songs, and Videos | ReverbNation

http://www.reverbnation.com/jerlandson
All songs written and recorded by Jared Erlandson. Other artists include Chris Janzen, Thayer Hills and Dave Gauthier and Jim Erlandson

Happy Groundhog Day!

Hope you all had a warm day! 

A special video

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=143438323378
A special story, have a kleenex handy.

Merry Christmas Everyone

and to all a Happy New Year!

from Leslie

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT LESLIE, JIM AND KEN

Wanted to wish Aunt Leslie a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY and while doing that I see that Ken and Jim are having birthdays, also.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you as well.

Love Naomi and Jim

Happy Birthday!

To Jim and Ken

I am honored to share my birthday with both of you  -  Leslie

Winter Blog, 2009/2010

How's your Winter? What's up with you?

August Rush

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Action & Adventure

2007. Rated PG. A very interesting movie. A boy uses his prodigious musical gifts to find his parents, unaware that they have begun a similar journey to find him.

New member

We finally got a new member! Welcome to Sara. 

Happy Halloween

Hi gang, I'm wishing you all a happy Halloween with my favorite photo of my sister Della Ann Binder. I'll always miss her. We made this scary man together & sat him in her window by the front door. Some of the kids thought he was real until they got inside. They didn't want to take the candy from his bowl.  Enjoy the spooky day!  Leslie

Happy Birthday Jan!

Dear Jan, we are all

Sent with much love, from Leslie

Big excitement on this old farm

Last week-end was unusual on our old dead-end country road. We kept noticing giant trucks kicking up lots of dust as they went up the hill past our house. They went to a new partially built home up on the hill above us. Not much building has gone on there for months. We thought the people had given up on finishing the home.

Then after it got dark we noticed smoke surrounding the home for hours. There were lots of bright lights and we could see people around the house so we figured if it was on fire there was help already there. Boyd finally decided that they had an enormous bonfire in their back yard perhaps burning wood scraps. Finally the smoke cleared up. All night long the big trucks came back down the hill, passing our house and stirring up more dust. I got little sleep.

Now the neighbors tell us that they were making a movie up there starring Antonio Banderas. I guess it's called "The Big Bang". The last time there was this much excitement in our neighborhood was when our barn was shown in a political commercial many years ago. I'm still trying to catch up on my sleep.

Happy Birthday Josh

J O S H,

I started planning the best birthday party ever  . . .

with


balloons

and

cake

and


music

and


fireworks

and



presents


. . . but I fell asleep



so I'll just wish you a VERY



with 

from

Grandma Wood

Family Celebration

November 1969 - Allen, Binder, Covey, Erlandson, Winters family members, plus Florence (Allen) Mikesell, and grandma Binder. Home movies taken by Eddie Binder at the Binder home in Spokane.

ca 1977, home movies of the talented Winters sisters.

Home movies taken by Eddie Binder.

1947 home movie, Mikey, Della Mikesell Binder, others

1947 home movie, filmed by Eddie Binder. Toddler Mike (Walsh) Binder, Della Mikesell, Leslie Mikesell, some Allen and Mikesell relatives, Bud and Grace (Allen) Wells, Clide Allen, Lucille (Mikesell) Bressler at her ranch in the Teton Mountains. Pat and Grandma Binder.