The first soup show of the season is under our belts. The holiday craft bazaar at the Brethren church in town here is always the first one. It’s smaller, but Beth loves it and the people. It’s been running concurrently with a huge other craft show for a few years, so that can depress the foot traffic, but it’s still always worth it to do the smaller one and get ready for the larger ones. Even with the other show going on, it seemed slower than in previous years, though. We did steady business but not as much as we have done there. In the end, we had a good show, not a great one, sold fairly well, but didn’t set any records. We made enough to pay for the supplies we’ve bought, I think. So the rest of the season should be mostly profit. Hope so, anyway. After the show was over Beth and I spent a long time trying to find the money pouch before finally figuring out we left it at the church… and it was all there when we came back for it, of course. Then we spent a long time trying to get our inventory to tally before coming to the conclusion that we were wrong on our beginning count by a dozen soups. We’re pretty sure anyway, as that was the only thing that made it tally. We were an even dozen off. Had to be.