Pathfinders Corner

December 2011

It's a great time to be riding, not cold not hot, its just right... Hope everyone spent lots of time with family and friends over Thanksgiving and you do the same for Christmas.  It's about the time and what you do, not what you get or give!  I know all will give also give their favorite horse a great big hug and an apple or two and if you cant just decide give them all a hug!  There's only one better thing than hugging your horse and that is hugging your family.  I know I have been traveling a good bit and I always look forward to going home.  Merry Christmas to all.

September 2011

Pathfinders, Please turn in your hours so we can have them for end of the show season banquet awards! You guys are out there riding, take credit, if you are part of a barn, put out the gauntlet and challenge each other for top honors for training and fun riding! If you are a parent or a kid, challenge your family for top honors in the family! Have fun and RIDE, RIDE, RIDE!

August 2011

While it has been hot, sure hope you made time to get up early to beat the heat and ride! Dwayne and Parker Tilley had a great arrangement at a show recently in Lexington, Virginia. Dwayne got to show on Friday and then they both trail rode on Saturday and Sunday. Parker shared that they rode for over two hours along with Larry and Teressa down to the river and the "wrong" way back to make it even more fun! All had a great time and the horses did get to play in the creek several times.

Please send me your hours so I can update our sheet showing how much we get to have fun riding. Again it is an honors program, so you don’t have to log each minute, round your time by the week or month and send me the update!

June 2011

I hope everyone is getting their rides in and taking care with the sun and the bugs (yes, its that time of the year again). Anyone with a good bug spray mix? Send it in and share. I found one that uses Citronella, Skin So Soft, Apple Cider vinegar -- add about 1 ounce of each, then add to a quart sprayer bottle, top it off with water. If it's not strong enough, adjust up equally, but don't exceed 1/2 the volume of the water. Crochet ears work well to keep the bugs off the ears, and there are the fly masks as well. Don't forget to spray yourself and use sunscreen!

I know you are out there riding, send me your hours. I need shirt size for New Members and I still owe Keely a shirt. Sign up at Asheville for Pathfinders and think about the Paso For Pleasure Program at the NationalLevel, I recently passed 2000 hours. Long time in getting there, but still logging my hours.

Have new hours posted as of this weekend. I am sure many will have more hours after the Memorial Day holiday to provide for me. I will be at Asheville if anyone wants to give me hours there.

"P"

May 2011

Welcome new members Dwayne and Parker Tilley! I know there will be a lot of competition in that household as who has the most hours logged this year. Please send me your updates so I can post. Will have Lynn post all new hours next time. Looking forward to seeing how many hours are being logged!
I am in the 400 hour range and while working a good bit that is probably not going to increase much, but when home, I ride!

"P"

April 2011

Hi Fellow Pathfinders!

From Winter Cold to Spring Wind and Rain Storms, we have had a fun couple of months this year to work around and ride. But those in between days -- wow, so nice. I did love the flirting with '80' days and I did ride, ride, ride. I am like you and forget to record my hours in the saddle, but I do my best. I am over the 300 mark for Piedmont, yeah and working towards my 2250 hours for Pasos for Pleasure. If you are a Pathfinder, I suggest you join the National level Pasos For Pleasure recreational program as well. All it takes is just like us, be a member and join the program and ride, ride, ride and oh yeah, have fun, take your friend and family and like me, dogs along!

Paulette

March 2011

Hi fellow Pathfinders!
Wow, what great weather after such cold and almost miserable winter! I am in the saddle logging time and wet saddle blankets - How about you? I am sure you are as well with such weather. Drop me an email at riofino@yahoo.com so that I can update you hours. All reported hours will go on 2011 as I had all hours sent to me for 2010! Lets work towards time in the saddle (fun) and remember, there is an award out there for most hours logged in the show year that will be given away at our annual banquet.

I have managed after a slow December and January to really ride. My longest ride lately was this week and I rode 9.5 miles. If you have a smart phone, look for a ap called Jog tracker. I got the free version and it tracks your ride, tells you how long you were out there and how many miles you rode. Really neat when you are out in the woods and making new trails! What Aps do you know that would work? Send me and email or write Lynn about your ride and of course send pictures!

Best of all, have fun, until we meet on the trails, at the shows and of course, make plans to join us at our annual membership meetings!
Paulette

February 2011

"BRRR..." is all I can say, what a cold, and white start to our 2011 trail riding. I did get a couple of days of riding inso far, hope you have as well. Please send me your hours as you make your award levels. The first level is 50 hours and as I approach and pass my 300th hour with Piedmont and getting to 2000 hours with Pasos for Pleasure, I can honestly say, I am a better rider for all the time in the saddle. A bad day in the saddle is still way better than a good day somewhere else. Do you have snow pictures of you and your horses? Send them to Lynn so we can update our gallery!

December 2010

Congratuations to our 2010 Pathfinder Award winners – all received award certificate and awards:

We had 20 members as of the start of the banquet and 7 new members as of the end of the banquet! and 2 more past members remembered! Total 29!!!

Pathfinders have seen that they can be rewarded simply for riding! Join the group it is only a onetime fee of $25 and log your hours.

Plus we had some members from the past remember and voice back in, welcome back and RIDE, RIDE, RIDE!

You can still give me your 2010 hours if you did not turn them in and I will fill in 2010 slot, hours logged after Sept will count for the 2011 time as it is easier to log concurrent with the show year! It just takes a few momemts, jot you time on a calendar and add it up. Sent it in, its just that simple.

Paulette

November 2010

Pathfinder members, its absolutely riding time, enjoy and log your hours send them to me when you reach 50, 100, 200 and so on so we can celebrate together. Send them in at the end of the year so we have a new goal to work towards next year. We have our hours logged for 2010 (working same calendar year with our show year), but that doesnt mean you arent having more fun and logging more hours!

I know many will be riding during the Thanksgiving Holiday, better on the back of a horse than shopping with all the mad shoppers on Black Friday... or at least come home and ride and let off some shopping steam!

Have fun, happy early holidays!

October 2010

Hi Fellow Pathfinders,

Wow what a difference a couple of weeks makes. Cooler, some much needed rain and so much nicer to not smother in dust while riding! I hope you are out there having fun. I have been getting some nice reports and need to get more. Send me your hours as I need to get awards ordered and certificates made up for our annual banquet! Speaking of banquet, I hope you will be joining us in Greensboro on Nov 13th for the annual membership meeting and award banquet. We will not only be awarding show awards, but also Pathfinder awards!

Send me your HOURS!!!! I need 2010 to date and all hours since you joined Pathfinders so I can tally up who rode the most in 2010! Where are you on the award levels? … and see you in Greensboro!
Time to renew and join back up, so send in your renewal form for Piedmont! Pathfinders is only a one time fee so if you joined up; you are still in, if you haven’t joined, what are you waiting for? It’s only a one time fee of $25! Get awards for riding your Paso Fino!

See you on the trails,
Paulette

September 2010
Fellow Pathfinders, we had a lovely break right at the end of August with beautiful weather for riding! I hope everyone was able to take advantage of this time to ride and log their Pathfinder hours! School is back, Nationals are upon us and best of all Fall is approaching! Please send me your hours logged for 2010 and total hours as a Pathfinder so we can get them posted and awards ordered in time for our November banquet. Keep logging your hours and best of all enjoy time in the saddle.

I made a life choice to allow me time in the saddle as well as working as we all know the outside of a horse is good for the inside of a person!

Paulette

August 2010
Hi Pathfinders! Hope you spent some early mornings enjoying rides during this hot summer we have been having. I have! While it has been hot, we have had some gorgeous mornings to ride and I have taken advantage of them. Where have you ridden? Do you have pictures you can send in so we can share with everyone? I would love to see them! Send them in with a description and we will post in our webpage so all can see what the Pathfinders have been up to.

As you can see, "Orchidia" is not sure of the clicking camera, but we are out there riding, meeting up with friends down the lane.

I also had the fun to have a lost hound puppy mix follow me home one day. Mike and I ended up fostering her for just over a week and found her a great home. You never know what will happen while out there on our Paso Fino's. The hound puppy "Indy" (4th of July weekend pooch) went out every day with me. She just knew what to do even when I changed horses on her, and always followed me home, never someoelses horse... She knew a good thing.

Be sure to send me you logged hours by the end of September so we can see who logged the most hours in 2010 as well as total hours. This will give me time to get the award levels ordered for everyone who has reached a level and see you at the November Banquet to give out the Pathfinders award achievements! We will post all levels and hours as well with our news!

If anyone would like to join... Its a one time $25 fee. I have Piedmont baby blue polo shirts in stock size S to XL and ready to send to you along with your log sheets. All it takes is you to write down the hours you are riding! What are you waiting for? You get rewarded for being out there enjoying your horses! Also, if you are already a Paso for Pleasure member at our National level, you are already logging hours, so, you can log for Piedmont as well. If you are a Piedmont Pathfinder, you may want to join the National level Pasos for Pleasure program!

I hope everyone has had a great summer! I am looking forward to fall, cooler weather, Nationals and our Annual Membership meeting and Banquet. See you on the trails...

Paulette DeNault-Bryce

Welcome New Pathfinder Members!!!
Log your hours and turn them in as you achieve 50/100/300/500/1000 hours! Also turn in your hours by the end of September so we can award achievements at our annual awards banquet! Enjoy!!! All hours count for 2010, so if you just joined let me know what you have "logged to date" so we can count your time! Lets see who has the most saddle time for 2010!

Congratulations to Robbie on over 500 hours! Also to Paulette and Lynn on achieving over 100. Pathfinder members turn in your hours so we can log your progress!

Our Pathfinders Shirts are IN and not just IN - IN Style!

Have fun riding and enjoy logging your hours in our new Pathfinders Polo shirts. Send in your hours by the end of September so I can tally up logged hours total and most logged hours in 2009. We will have Pathfinder awards at our Members Banquet in November! I will send shirts to those that have joined and look forward to new members joining! See examples (above) of our Piedmont Polo shirt and our Piedmont Long Sleeve shirt!

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