Lassie

Here is Grandpa Marshall and Lassie in the yard at the Cherry farm in Grandview Washington. Lassie was part Springer Spaniel and something else I think. She was a very sweet ol dog. Her main trick was shaking hands, which us kids had her doing all the time. Wandering around the farm she would get burrs in her coat all the time and we would help pull them off her. Sometimes they would get so tangled that Grandpa would have to take his pocket knife and cut them out of her hair. Every morning Grandpa and sometimes Grandma (if Gramps was away)would get up and irrigate the trees by opening water gates or blocking certain ditches with mud. Lassie would follow them as they irrigated. I loved waking up on the farm to the smell of mint fields, hop fields and cherry wood burning in Grandma Marshall's wood burning cooking stove. There was also a peach orchard.