Soup Recipe from the Sockmonkey Potluck!

Folks, today was the Quarterly Sockmonkey Potluck, and as is customary, I brought a big slow cooker filled with soup. I just like soup. Happily, so do the people I hang out with, so, easy-peasy. Not easy-peasy? When everyone asks me for the recipe. I swear, I try to remember to write things down. I'm a writer, after all. I should be able to write. Right? So, since I just banged it together today…