I know I know - two blog posts in two days from Lori. It's almost too much to consider!

I thought you all might be interested in knowing that we had a brainstorming session today. As you may recall, Mr. Fornof and I are currently working on finishing up Season 10 - and this morning we had a discussion of Season 11. Where do we want to go? What do we want to achieve by the end of the season? Where are we looking for future seasons?! Future seasons? Really?!

Well, we came up with a lot of VERY interesting things that I'm sure you're going to enjoy in the season! And that's as Cheesy Teasy as I'm allowed to get before Steve O'Dell gets on a plane and makes a trip to Texas to stop me!!

But I just thought you all might like to know that. It was VERY interesting!

Now - go have a great weekend - and enjoy episode 10:4! That's an order Good Buddy! :)

Well, we're well and good into the season now and we're getting into a block of "Lori Episodes"! I didn't realize as I was writing that so many of my episodes were going to be right in the middle of this season all bunched together!

10-4 Good Buddy, as you know from the Funcast, is a play on the fact that it's episode four of season 10. I took the challenge to do an episode on friendship. And if you've listened to the Funcast, you also know that Marcy's going to be making an appearance in this episode. But we're not going to visit Brooke at college - we're going somewhere else!

Next weekend "Sandcastles in Storms" airs and I've got to say, that one and the other half of it, "Is God in Pittsburgh" were two of the most difficult episodes that I've ever written for DGL! They were a lot of fun because, as you may or may not know, I grew up just a little ways north of Pittsburgh and I love Pittsburgh! It's one of ...

Well, I met with a neurologist today.  He did a lot of interesting tests on me, he looked over all the blood tests my regular doctor had taken and he did a scan of the pictures of my brain and spine that the MRI had produced.  His conclusion:  "There's nothing wrong with you"!  So, either I've been imagining things or you guys really did pray hard. ;) Seriously, I am grateful that there's no serious problem to worry about.  I have one more meeting with my regular doctor to talk over what should happen next (if anything) on April 25.  Thanks for your prayers.  I'll let you know if there's any more news as time goes on.

I just wanted to drop a quick line to everyone and let you know that Steve and I are back from NRB. He's back in good old MI and I'm back in San Antonio. The time together was fun - it was fantastic seeing Kelli and getting to actually be in the same room together, but if anything, it showed us that no matter how far apart we are, God's got us working solidly together for a purpose. We met many people at NRB who were surprised that Down Gilead Lane and the podcast come together so smoothly with our 'staff' so far apart - Mr. Fornof in CO and Mrs. Ritchie and Steve-O in MI and myself in San Antonio. A few people were convinced that we really were all in the same building because everything comes together so great! Just goes to show that when you're working with God's purpose in mind, the distance doesn't matter.

We did have a great time and we're working now on when we'll be able to have a podcast for the upcoming S10. It's going to be a fantastic season. I'm very excited about thi ...

Just curious whether people will see it here first on the blog - or on the messageboard. *g*

Enjoy it!

Hello all you fans of Down Gilead Lane! It's nice to see you all! :)

As you  may know, a lot of new things have been happening with DGL. We got our recording system up and running (as evidenced in some part by the Valentine's Special hitting the airwaves!) and we're hard at work on Season 10 right now. I'll get to more of that in a few minutes!

Steve and I did record a quick podcast last week and I think his goal is to have it up this week sometime. We did  a little review of the Valentine's Special and teased some great things that we have coming up - so keep your eyes open for that to hit the Internet sometime within the next day or two.

Our whole team has been working really hard on season 10 lately. With our recording issues and the problems there, we've had to work and push hard to get things moving, but the writing has been steadily pushing forward. About a week ago, I finished two episodes that I'm really excited abo ...

We finally got pictures back from UPS of our server.  This one is of the front cover and shows the most damage, although there are others that show some of the damage inside.  Anyway, progress is being made (very slowly) on getting a settlement from UPS to pay for the new server.  In the meantime, thanks to God and many of our listeners making some very generous year-end gifts, we were able to go ahead and order the new server from Fairlight, so that they could get started on putting it together.  That turned out to be a wise decision on the part of Mrs. Ritchie, because if we had to wait until UPS pays up, it might not be until we're going into season 27!!!  Seriously, we should have the new server in place by the middle of next week (PTL!!).

Now, wi ...

Hey everybody.  Long time, it seems, since I posted an entry here.  Well, I guess the holidays can have a tendency to create a lot of busyness.  Actually, I don't feel like we were especially busy this year, just more comitted than ever before NOT to take myself away from the family in order to do work.   

So, now we're back into the swing of things and need to ask you to pray for our equipment issues again.  Some of you may remember how towards the end of season 9 we were experiencing trouble with the digital editing and post-production system: Fairlight.  Well, thankfully, we were able to hobble to the end of the season and through the 2 holiday specials we had planned for the end of the year, and ordered new parts and software to get the system back up and running.  In ...