Yes I am from good old San Antonio, home of the Alamo.  I thought I would get that out of the way since everyone asks me "isn't that where the Alamo is?  I am single girl and work for the newspaper here in town.  I have to do a lot of research as a writer and I was tasked with writing an article on environmentally safe landscape alternatives that save on water.  One of the first things you think of is decorative colored rock, drought tolerant plants and what I didn't think about is artificial turf.  The more I researched the more artificial turf came up as an acceptable landscaping alternative that is always green, has a 20-25 year life expectancy, savers water and can be reasonably affordable to install.  To further my research I had some artificial turf samples sent to me from a company called Global Syn Turf.  I was impressed how nice the samples looked and felt.  One in particular that I liked was the S Blade 90.  I couldn't help myself but speak to a representative at Global Syn Turf to tell me more about the cost of having artificial turf installed into a residential home.  They showed me an application calculator on their website that does all that for me.  I then told the representative I wanted to have someone come out to my house and give me a bid for artificial turf to be installed in my yard.  He told me Global Syn Turf is the world's largest manufacture of grass and is sold in 8 countries world wide and that they did not do installations.  He referred to a certified synthetic grass distributor here in San Antonio.   The distributor came out to my house and gave me a bid and I could not help myself I bought the turf to be installed in my back and side yard.  Now that it is installed I love it and think I will write another article for my newspaper tell the readers how great this stuff is.