On a whim, I applied a theme to my blog that I had used before. Lo and behold, all of my sidebar widgets, images, and text reappeared like nothing had ever happened. I have no idea why one theme wipes them out while another retains them, but I was relieved to see my old blog back.
This morning I was able to import the few posts I had written on Blogger. Now I have to go through over 800 posts that I had reverted to draft over here so I can re-publish them. Of course I won’t get that finished today. It will be quite the stroll down memory lane, reviewing each one before I re-publish.
So please don’t kill me, but I am going to remove the Blogger site and set up shop over here again, now that all of my information has been restored. Apparently I will need to be very careful if I ever decide to change themes again, but this one was always one of my favorites, anyway.