The hawk in Menifee, CA can only be a Cooper's Hawk but it is an oddly-colored one. Something going on with the feathers, such as a heavy molt or missing feathers for some other reason. If you have other photos please post.

I want to warn garden webbers about WS Bath Collections and Modo Bath. Wael, of WS Bath Collections and probably the WS in WS Bath, was extremely rude and unprofessional in the handling of an order that was placed with Modo Bath. Tried to get more spec information from Modo Bath prior to placing order. Manager, George, provided incomplete and incorrect information. We proceeded with the order with the promise that the items could be returned. It became complicated when the items turned out to be other than described by George. Stay away from these two companies.

I think I found my people in this post/group! I love fragrance. I can’t get enough. I grow tiny little orange trees just for the blossoms. I am obsessed with gardenias but have not been successful in growing them. I have better success with Jasmine. I have too many varieties to list. Quite a few starter plants from Logees. I just found a local Etsy shop with much bigger Jasmine plants and healthy too. Outside, I am a David Austen newbie. Olivia, Princess Alexandria of Kent, Boscobel, Jubilee Celebration, Pilgrim. Not DA: Then Earth Angel and Eden climber). James Galway on order. Lots of drift ground cover roses. I have several Dave Wilson fruit trees (multi bud and two Monrovia espaliers) Apple, Pear, Peaches, cherry, pluots all different varieties on dwarf stock. I grow asiatic and oriental lilies for the fragrance. And loads of blueberries, strawberries and now starting grapes. In a postage stamp size of a yard. Oh, monster honeysuckle ( I need to manage better) and clematis. On the wall and fence. 35 hydrangeas. In the spring it is all hyacinth, fragrant daffodils and snow drops. My neighbors think I am nuts. My real struggle is keeping the plants happy indoors that I have to bring in soon. I don’t have a warm garage. I do have a sunroom with steam radiators, fan and humidifiers and extra UVA lights. Oh, and I cannot get my amaryllis to bloom no matter which technique I try. Massachusetts 6a Coastal. Colleen

Really nice home and property. You could simply remove any central vac system and invest in a Roomba -- that could get rid of one something along one wall and let you square room 1. https://www.google.com/search?q=Roomba&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1l-Ll87bnAhXJSt8KHZjVD0QQsxh6BAgPECs&biw=1366&bih=628#spf=1580785213419 For heating purposes in a large old two story home, being able to close off the stairwell should be the primary concern since heat rises. From personal experience ... if you have a wood stove, you'd be better much served putting it in a larger room or in a room open to multiple rooms. NOT in a small room such as room 3. If you have a wood heater, you could put it either in or in front of your fireplace (with triple wall metal stove pipe lining the chimney for safety). If you don't want to make room 3 your new Foyer/Entry ... but if you want the room 2&3 side of the house to be your front of the house ... another way to use the rooms is worth considering: You have a tiny bathroom very close to the kitchen/eating area. Budget permitting, the best use of room three could well be closing it off from room 2 and creating a new full bath in room 3. That would enable you to square the informal dining room and move the bathroom farther away from the kitchen and dining area. Once you've moved the bathroom, you could recreate the space between kitchen and informal dining with a pass thru kitchen cabinet "wall" that you can walk all the way around. https://www.bhg.com/home-improvement/remodeling/architectural-details/home-design-ideas-room-dividers/?slide=slide_2bf3e1c7-021a-4262-9de6-fd5daf3777a7#slide_2bf3e1c7-021a-4262-9de6-fd5daf3777a7 Keeping only one interior door to enter room 2 from room 3 means you could use room 2 as a bonus room -- usable as a bedroom or as you choose. It also means you can keep that one door to room 2 closed and not fully heat it all the time. You could keep as is or alter or (if not load bearing) remove the wall between dining and informal living room to create a single elongated rectangle shaped "great room" -- kitchen, dining, family room. If you created a pony wall between dining wall and informal living, your wood heater in the fireplace could heat the entire great room area. You could keep as many posts as needed for support in that pony wall and, with a solid back on the informal living room room side, you can put any furnishings you choose by it with the back to the pony wall. You could alter the porch beside room 2 between the window to room 2 and the door to room 1 to create a wider porch there that wraps around the side of room 1 several feet. You could even enclose that area and create a new foyer and make the rest of the porch on the right side of room 2 your front porch. Then in that back corner off the kitchen at a right angle to room 3, remove the shallow/narrow open porch and create a square deck or patio there with a rail around it and steps exiting on the left side toward what would be the back of your home. You might also consider a "green wall" -- row of shrubs -- all across the yard so guests are led to the new foyer on the right side of the home.