The Cool Way to Wash Your Car

If your car has been sitting in the sun or you’ve just taken it for a long drive, you should wait until it cools down before soaping up. Park it in the shade for a couple of hours—or start with the interior. A hot exterior speeds the drying of the soap and water. While that may sound like a good thing, it makes washing more difficult because it increases the chance of spots and soap scum. Avoid the hassle—wait until things cool off before soaping it up!

DIY Mother's Day Vintage Teacup Bird Feeder

This adorable homemade bird feeder is a cinch to make and the perfect DIY gift for Mother's Day! Here's what you'll need:

    -3 feet of 1/2 inch copper plumbing pipe per bird feeder
    -Copper cap
    -Sand paper or sanding block
    -Vintage teacup
    -Epoxy
    -Q-tip
    -Birdseed

If you'd like to know how you can create your own, head over to this site for a full on tutorial! Make sure to let us know how yours turned out.

Things to Avoid Doing While Driving in the Rain

Rain can cause extremely dangerous driving conditions if you're not careful. Keep reading to learn five things to avoid doing while driving in wet weather conditions.

1. Don't drive toward the sides of the road. Roads are constructed so that they're highest in the middle. The difference may be slight, but it causes water to run off the center and drain toward the edges. If you're driving in the rain, you want to avoid standing water. You want your vehicle to be where the water isn't -- and that's in the center of the road.

2. Don't leave your headlights off. It's important to turn your headlights on when it's raining so that other people can see you. In the murky gloom of a rainstorm, even a light drizzly one, the lack of sunlight impairs our vision. Headlights will let other drivers know where you are.

3. Don't drive if you can't see through your windshield. Not being able to see ahead, you don't necessarily know what's there. There could be stopped cars in front of you that you can't see. There may be pedestrians running through the downpour. When visibility gets low, pull off the road as quickly as it's safe to do so. Stop your car and wait for things to clear up again.

4. Don't drive through deep water. If you see water flowing across the road from one side to the other and don't know how deep it is, don't try to drive across it. Vicious currents of rainwater exist that can carry you and your car for hundreds of feet. Even if the water isn't moving, if the bottom isn't visible, you don't know what's underneath it. Don't risk putting your tires on the submerged pavement.

5. Don't drive too fast for weather conditions. Never drive above the speed limit in wet weather conditions. The worse the conditions, the lower your speed should be. The worst danger of driving too fast in rain is hydroplaning. When the road is wet and you're going too fast, your car can actually begin to float on top of the water and the tire tread loses contact with the road surface.

What Causes Traffic?

Have you ever wondered how many hours you've spent sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffi­c? According to the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) at Texas A&M University, you might spend as much as two weeks in your car each year. So what causes traffic?

As the first car stops, the following cars must also stop. Even when the first car begins to move again, additional approaching cars have to stop farther down the road, and the congested area travels backward in a wave until traffic is light enough for it to dissipate.

Assuming construction, accidents, and stalled vehicles aren't to blame, it's likely due to more cars entering the highway than leaving it. As more cars enter a crowded road, drivers have to use their brakes to avoid collisions, creating a traffic wave. A traffic wave occurs when cars slow down, and the slowing trend continues backward -- like a domino effect. As long as there are more cars approaching from behind, the traffic congestion travels in a wave.

As space opens up ahead of your car, you can accelerate and escape the congestion. The person behind you can accelerate a few moments later, and the person behind them a few moments after that. The congestion doesn't immediately clear up -- it continues to shift slowly back down the highway. Congestion can clear if traffic becomes light enough to stop the traffic-wave effect.

Decorate Easter Eggs with Napkins

Decorating Easter eggs is a fun family activity! There are so many different ways to dye, color, draw on, stain, embellish, or just plain decorate an Easter egg. Decorating eggs with napkins require zero artistic ability and turn out looking good every single time! Check out the tutorial below to find out how to achieve this design: http://bit.ly/1i2AgYZ

Earth Day 2014

Each year, Earth Day, April 22, marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace. Earth Day has evolved and people all over the world now celebrate. There are plenty of ways to show you care for the planet on which we live. Here are some suggestions below:

-Carpool with friends and family to save gas and reduce your carbon footprint.
-Switch to online bill pay to reduce the amount of wasted paper.
-Plant a tree or garden.
-Update the light bulbs in your home to more energy-efficient bulbs.
-Set up a compost bin. Every time you throw out coffee grounds, paper towels or a pizza box, you're adding to a landfill. All of these materials can be composted instead of trashed, and compost is an ideal way to fertilize your outdoor space.

Will you do your part this Earth Day?

Texting & Driving

Texting while driving causes 1.6 million accidents each year, according to the National Safety Council. Yes, you read that right. This is an extremely alarming statistic, which is one of the main reasons certain states are developing harsh penalties to keep the roads safer.

The risk of getting into a crash is 23 times higher if you are texting behind the wheel. Pay attention to the road, don’t get distracted, and as always, make sure you have proper auto insurance coverage for when accidents do occur.


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