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38 SportsTurf | December 2014 www.sportsturfonline.com Facility & Operations Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is some newly graded fields... oh and, as always, a bigger budget would help. I would like an earlier spring with no March snowstorms. A fun answer is a bug that eats artificial turf; I am a grass man! Professional answer is an assistant. All I want for Christmas is to not have a repeat of winter like last year. I would like the equipment to continue operating without any major repairs. With the budget situations of today it's imperative we maintain the equipment to the best of our ability and pray nothing major happens to it. No winter and a cure for cancer! Nice comfortable waterproof boots that last longer than 3 months I would like for Christmas….People to stop thinking synthetic turf is the answer for everything! The item I would like for Christmas would be a topdresser. I would like a mild winter to grow in new sod. Knock on wood!!! One thing to wish for Christmas this year would be mild tem- peratures this winter. Sorry, Santa, leave the cold air and snow in the North Pole. Having a mild winter would be great for the turf here in transition zone here in North Carolina. Now that I have made this wish we will probably get a foot of snow and record ice storms! I would like a new computer with updated software. Slit-seeder. A Seed-A-Vator if I can be picky. I think I would like to see a more positive attitude toward the indus- try. I think the longer you are in the sports turf field the more jaded you become as to your role and influence. We are over worked and under thanked for the countless hours we put in. Our own attitude is the only thing that we have a direct way of changing in order to make out jobs stay gratifying. I would love a calm, non-windy, cloudless sky on days that I need to paint fields, logos, etc. For Christmas I would like a First Products VERTIcutter! Since we have to be in multiple places at once I would like a trans- porter beam that would allow us to teleport in a 5,000 mile radius. Beam me up, Scotty! ■ SportS turf profeSSionalS: what do you want for Christmas? Editor's note: Once again this year we asked, for fun, a chimney full of sports turf industry professionals what they would like for Christmas that they might use in their work. Here are their anonymous (!) responses: