I wasn’t going to mention it, but since Karin spilled the beans, I guess I’ll let everyone know that we have obtained our own domain and will soon be moving our blogs there. I won’t reveal the URL of the site until it is ready; but my posts over the next few days might hint at it, if I find time to post. Setting up a site from scratch can be a little time consuming; but at least be not revealing the URL we can take the necessary time before the unveiling.

While time has been a major factor in my lack of blogging as of late, thinking of setting up our own site also kept me from working on this site. How does that make sense? Simply put, a good site or blog can be a lot of work, and there didn’t seem to be any point in putting work into this blog if we were eventually going to have our own site and I would have to just recreate that work. However, having our own site will definitely motivate me to be more diligent about blogging regularly and finding things to make for an interesting site.

We’ll both be using Wordpress to run our blogs, and it does allow full importing of all our posts and comments from Blogger; so I can feel free to post here and you can comment, as it will all come over to the new blog. The site has already been quite some work, as we had to find a good domain name that is available, research dozens of hosts to find a good but inexpensive one, and configure the site. Right now Karin has Wordpress set up on her portion of the site and she is experimenting with it and checking out the available themes, and I am throwing together a front page for the site. Afterward I’ll add Wordpress to my subdomain, import my blog, and choose from the interesting themes and plugins that Karin has found. We’ll update our feeds so that those of you reading us through your favorite reader will see no changes, and we hope that everyone else will follow us over when we make the switch.