It's getting hot out here...

We have been in Iowa for over a month and we are really enjoying it. We are adjusting to the humidity, but we sure enjoy the low altitude! A few weeks ago I had another Iowa trombone debacle. While practicing my slide came off and I caught it in a weird way and it effectively cut two notches in the tip of the inner slide. Pain! I should be getting my slide back from trombone repair genius Merlin Grady tomorrow. He ordered a new inner slide, so it should be good as new, or better! That twice in six months that I have had my slide rebuilt. Not good. I vow to not destroy my trombone any more! Or are the trombone gods telling me to put away the Edwards and go in a different direction? No, I really like my horn. I recently added the Silver T2 leadpipe and that has been a great change for me. I will put a pic up later of the slide.