var options = { attributes: { rel: 'nofollow', title: 'click to open', }, className: '', format: { url: function (value) { return value } }, ignoreTags: ['a'], validate: { url: function (value) { return value; } } }; var str = `Today was Charlie's birthday. He is now 29 years old. I gave Charlie a long list of things to pick up on the way, so here about a half hour later than usual. We were waiting for the man from Cranesville Block Company to come and pour concrete into the hole that Darren and Jean Jean dug. Marc Briscoe welded an apparatus with a loop on top to be put in the concrete. To that hook would be attached cable, the other end of which would be put around the trunk of the tree that's crushing my barn studio. When the guy from Cranesville finally got here and started pouring the concrete, everything went wrong. First, pebbles started coming out, and then overly thick concrete started coming down the chute, which soon got totally stuck at the top of the chute. The Cranesville guy kept hosing water up and into the chute while Charlie used a hoe to try and dig out the concrete. This eventually worked, and the whole time the Cranesville guy was hosing the concrete so what we got was a mix of too dry and too wet. I wasn't impressed with the guy's troubleshooting ability. The next day I checked the concrete and it did have small cracks in it. I am hopeful that when the tree is cable to the loop that it will hold. I think it probably will. When he left Charlie and I had pulled pork sandwiches (see next Charlie Smith entry (September 29th 2017)), after which we went up to help Cathy in her studio a little bit, and then we spent the rest of the afternoon working on the site. The reason Charlie and I work on the site together is because he types much much faster than I do.`; document.write(linkifyHtml(str, options)); ]]>