It was warm out — at least for Michigan near the end of October — so I got an appointment to take Peanut in to get his wing feathers clipped. When we got home he flew from the travel cage up to the perch in his house, then he flew over to the Finsterium very fast, then he flew back home again very fast, just to prove that he can still fly, thank you very much, and it'd take more than just four feathers clipped on each wing to change that! He gets so full of himself sometimes! Since then, he's flown up a couple of times, landed on my head, dropped from the play gym to the shelf without skidding over the edge (I'd worried about that one a bit); it's as if he didn't get any feathers trimmed at all. But — he hasn't flown any little loops around the kitchen. So I think it did its job.