Remy Hacking and Bonbon Squealing

I've had a great morning with the horses.
I took Remy for a hack up the track. I wanted to see how he was, my aim to go through the little wood to the road. I'm a bit of a wuss with traffic, and the road has always been a mental barrier for me. The point where the track meets the road is just off a blind bend, you can see one way, but you have to listen for traffic from the other direction. It's not really a busy road, but cars are usually going quite fast.  He'd been forward and confident up to the road so I decided to cross it. We waited for two cars to pass and then went across. He was perfectly fine, I expected him to be, but as I said,the road..........
We went on along the track and walked round the top end of the small lake before heading back.  He waited patiently while a couple of cars went past and then we crossed back towards home. We've been across two or three times before, but not without Jim so I really was pleased, I feel like we've made another step forward and I've overcome the barrier in my mind.
We then took Bonbon up to the school. I started off with a short lungeing session, she was unsettled and reluctant to trot, squealing and first charging off in canter and then backing off and trying to turn in. We carried on and she started to settle, so I finished on a good note after a short trot on each rein with a few walk/trot transitions where she was listening and happy to do what I was asking. I then got on, asking her to relax and release her jaw with flexion to each side at halt before asking her to walk on. It was a short session, walk and halt transitions on each rein and a couple of attempts at asking her to take her weight back into reinback. She can do this in hand, and after a little confusion she understood, relaxed and as she released her jaw took a couple of nice steps backwards. The first time riding her in this newly fitted saddle and I was pleased, it felt good. She makes me smile.