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so yesterday morning I started on the other side, this drawer will be their feed drawer

I stopped when I got to the top, I'm still not sure how I am going to finish off the ends yet

so now I had both ends shingled, it is important to make it look visually level, there is a difference between looking right and actually being right as far as level. Perception truly influences what our mind thinks as correct, I didn't use a level during any part of this, if I was building something that I was structural I would be concerned about true level, but since this is just a simple chicken coop, here is how to make it look right

take a push pin and stick it into the bottom of the shingles on one end and attach some string

and do the same with the other side

this is our "level" line, you can see how far the right side of the base is slanted downwards and how far off the string is from the pallets

so I nailed down a starter course, you can see how much the doorway appears canted from the shingles

one of the girls was not impressed by my performance

so I continued shingling away and the farther I get away from the bottom, it is starting to level out

the doorway is still distracting to the eye, making the brain think, that doesn't look right

trimming with pine and making that level with the shingles on the top and bottom makes up for that keeping everything in straight lines

the courses on the ends and the front match up, completing the illusion that everything is fine

so today I need to figure out what I'm doing for a roof, not sure if I want to do a flat roof or a pitch like on the duck house,

to be continued

we have a flat roof on our original coop, it holds pretty well being such a short span