Hello Readers,
This is Susan, Muriel’s daughter, writing to explain why she has been absent from this blog for a while. You may have heard that mom was planning to visit me here in the U.S. so that we could record some more silly songs in the “Crazy Grandma Sings” series. Well, I am here to tell you that making videos with her wacky dottur is not the whole story. . .
While we were indeed planning to record more songs, the truth is that my mother has been a Special Agent in the American Covert Forces for many decades, and they needed her to come down from Canada for a particularly daring and dangerous operation involving two Mexican drug cartels, several international terrorists, and a passel of high-level Russian hit men. Only Muriel could handle an operation with this level of complexity and peril, and handle it she did.
Unfortunately, during the final phase, which involved defusing a bomb on a private plane carrying a number of top American government officials (whom she cannot name for security reasons), Muriel broke her leg in a death-defying sky-diving effort to capture the bomber, who parachuted from the plane after mom defeated him in hand-to-hand combat, in which she used only her reading glasses to fend off his assortment of knives and other weapons, all while simultaneously neutralizing the explosive device. Despite her badly broken femur, Muriel did ultimately subdue the heinous criminal mastermind, and she managed to keep her cute hat on the whole time!
Of course, what Muriel will tell you is that she broke her leg after tripping during the night on her way back from the bathroom, but don’t you believe it! More about Muriel’s adventures later, but rest assured, dear readers, that she is back in Canada and recovering from her injury, her leg made more bionic than ever and her spirit 100% intact. Thank you to those of you who reached out to ask about her. She truly appreciated it.
View from Over the Hill 