Not again! Reed broke his leg during a night jump at Fort Bragg when he landed in a hole. He said the moon was fairly bright that evening but he didn't see the hole. This is the umpteenth time he has broken a foot or leg, dating back to junior high. If memory serves, his first incident involved a car striking him while riding his bicycle at an intersection. Then there was the skiing accident in high school. And the grandaddy of them, back in '03 I think, when a ramp on a flatbed trailer became a lethal projectile as the tire of huge piece of equipment spun and kicked it out. The ramp flew across the room where Reed was merely an unlucky observer and shattered his right foot.
Four of his toes were moved one digit to the right of their original position, requiring numerous pins to hold in place after surgery. Recently a doc told him bone has grown around some of the pins making it problematic to remove them.
But you can't keep a good man down.
This time he had a hairline fracture of his right ankle. He went bowling using one foot. Said he did okay, too.
Fayetteville got a few inches of snow last week. Reed took this shot in his back yard. Naturally, the city ground to a halt. Military personnel got a day off. "Someone told me there is one snowplow for the whole county," Reed said. Harkening back to my days in Grand Forks, I remember driving out to the air force base 15 miles west of town after the first snowstorm and seeing all the cars in the ditch, most of them with license plates indicating the drivers came from places like North Carolina.
Reed and friend, Brendon Reardon did a little "mudding" last weekend.
Reed gets a leg up at work as per doctor's orders.