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She has gain about 30g since last July. In July she was 396, early November she was 413, now she's 432. Is this Ok?

You didn't mention what pellet you are using but I noticed Harrisons high-potency (not sure about the lifetime as I've never used it) will pack on the weight if they have free access to them. Our former cockatiel really ballooned out on them. GreycieMae will pack on the pudge as she loves to eat. My birds have no choice but to fly. They get tossed regularly in the living room and have to circle around and back into the dining area where we have their cages. I'll usually fly Greycie until she starts to want to take a short-cut and just land on me. Maybe a couple more tosses. It gets her breathing and I feel like it keeps her somewhat active. She will bust out flying on her own which usually starts our flying episodes. Huey came to us as a non-flyer. I started him on the bed. Just short tosses. He know flys all over the place.

I am sure her diet has changed since we just brought her home in July 2020. I'm not sure how much it's changed though. She ate fruits and veggies and a seed mix before, but we couldn't nail down how much. She still eats those things, but we added a pellet mix and cut the seeds back. We introduced some specific veggies at the recommendation of members here to help with the nutritional content of her food. She also gets an occasional walnut or almond in its shell. She enjoys playing with them before eating. (They are also an 'in' for my husband whom she doesn't really care for.) Though fully feathered, she doesn't fly. Her previous human said he didn't think she knew she could. We tried to interest her, but she doesn't seem to want to.

The pandemic has been tough on everyone. Has she been dating the fridge (my wife told one of her school friends that on the phone the other day) 🤣

We are about to replace furniture in the room where our birds spend time with us. Not because of them, but it is old and falling apart. With three birds in our house, and two that have enjoyed trying to chew the leather off the current furniture, I was hoping for a little discuss on fixes or types of furniture that have worked well for some of you. I have even considered metal garden furniture with replaceable cushions. 🤪

We do a large heavy throw on the leather chairs too. GreycieMae is constantly chewing on it but it is what it is.

Thanks! I didn't think about it as special furniture, I guess. We don't know what we want yet, but thought getting opinions from people with birds might be helpful. I am always sitting on a blanket now that Vannah is with us. She chews on anything in reach and is by far the worst about it out of the 2. She's put holes in blankets and sweatshirts and loves to try and get to the rivets in my jeans! I guess I figured those of you with more experience with large birds might know something I'm not thinking of.

I've never really bought special furniture to account for Alfie. He lives in the living room/dining room so I have sofas, TV, dining table, chairs etc. I throw an old blanket over the sofa when he's out because there are two shelves above it that he hangs out of and drops things off. So the blanket protects the sofa from any shredding cardboard/toys or a stray poop. He likes to try and chew on the cat tree because it has some wicker baskets on it (bad choice, in hindsight) so I pop a few cushions over the bits he's most likely to land on to try and deter him. When he decies to hang upsides off the side of a cushion to chew the cat tree, I ask him to step up on a perch and remove him (presenting my arm at that stage is likely to earn me a chomp... and he is more reliable with stepping up on a perch than me (even though I'm attached to the perch... go figure...!) He has started top land on the TV lately, which I don't encourage, so I get him to step up straight away and remove him somewhere safer. The TV will eventually be wall mounted anyway as I'm planning to redecorate and reorganise the space sometime soon.