Shelley Riggs, REALTOR/Broker Associate, Lic. # 01497837.

03/08/2026

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

11/27/2025

Just so everyone knows the truck is there for your enjoyment! Anyone is welcome to take some pictures with it while shopping!
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11/24/2025

Stop by the Lake Oroville Visitor Center for winter-themed craft activities for kids ages three and older! Weekend craft activities are free and offered between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. while supplies last. Located at 917 Kelly Ridge Road in Oroville, the Visitor Center is open daily. A full list of each weekend’s scheduled craft activity is available in the Lake Oroville Community Update: https://water.ca.gov/News/Blog/2025/Nov-25/Lake-Oroville-Update-November-21-2025

11/20/2025

11/16/2025

🚧 ROADWORK AND DETOUR ALERT 🚧
{Update 11/25/25}: Weather and operational circumstances have delayed portions of the LOAPUS sewer line replacement. Starting this week, both northbound lanes on Lincoln will be closed and detoured, and both southbound lanes will remain open.

LOAPUD will be replacing a sewer line on Lincoln Street beginning Monday, November 17, through Friday, November 21.

A full road closure will be in place on Lincoln Street from Wyandotte Avenue to B Street, with a soft closure from C Street to Myers Street for local access only.

Detour routes will direct drivers from Wyandotte and Lincoln onto Myers Street, and drivers on Lincoln Boulevard will continue onto Myers Street to reach the Wyandotte Avenue area.

Please plan extra travel time and follow posted detour signs.
Thank you for your patience.

11/16/2025

You die tomorrow. Your children walk into your home—closets stuffed with clothes unworn for years, attic packed with mystery boxes, drawers full of things you meant to sort "someday." Now they must decide what mattered to you and what was just… there. This is the inheritance you're building right now.

Margareta Magnusson, a Swedish woman somewhere between 80 and 100 (she won't say exactly), has written a slim, devastating book that will make you see every object differently. "Döstädning," she calls it—death cleaning. The Swedes have a word for tidying up your life before you go so no one else has to. Once you understand it, you can't unknow it. The question becomes: what are you going to do about all that stuff?

1. Your Stuff Will Outlive Your Stories
Magnusson's premise cuts to the bone: keep only what makes you happy or what you use, because everything else becomes someone else's burden. She's witnessed adult children weeping in their late parent's basement, surrounded by unidentifiable things they can't bear to discard. The golf clubs never used. Photos of strangers. China from a marriage no one discusses. Swedish death cleaning isn't about preparing for death—it's about living with only what earns its place.

2. Start Where It's Easy, Not Where It Hurts
Begin with what's easiest to release—duplicate gadgets, ancient formal wear, unread books. Build momentum before tackling love letters and children's artwork. Magnusson's rules are brutal: if your children don't want it, don't force it. If you keep something from guilt, that's insufficient. If untouched for years, you won't miss it. She offers startling anecdotes—sorting a friend's erotic collection, her own paintings—revealing our peculiar attachment to unused objects.

3. Everything You Treasure Will Mean Nothing to Someone Else
The book's most haunting moment: love letters found at an estate sale, intimate words between strangers now sold for pennies because no one remembers who wrote them or why. Magnusson confronts uncomfortable truths—fantasy selves in clothes that don't fit, abandoned hobbies still claiming space, gifts kept from obligation. Her wisdom: keep a "throw away immediately" box. Label photos while you remember. Don't save for a "someday" that won't arrive.

4. Legacy Isn't What You Leave Behind—It's What You Free Others From
At just over 100 pages, this book reframes possessions as future burden rather than current comfort. Magnusson's voice—wise, irreverent grandmother who knows what matters—cuts through emotional fog with Swedish directness. The greatest gift isn't more things but less guilt, less obligation, less burden to preserve a material legacy never requested. Death cleaning isn't morbid; it's love disguised as housekeeping.

For anyone drowning in decades of accumulation, paralyzed by the sentiment attached to objects, or simply wondering why they're keeping three broken blenders—Magnusson offers liberation. Her death cleaning isn't morbid; it's generous. It's choosing to take responsibility for your possessions while you still can, rather than leaving them as a puzzle for others to solve.

Read this book. Then go look at your basement with new eyes. You'll understand why the Swedes are so famously content—they've learned what the rest of us resist: freedom isn't having everything. It's needing less.

BOOK: https://amzn.to/43r3YZ7

You can find and listen to the audiobook narration using the link above.

11/13/2025

11/04/2025

During the two weeks after we change our clocks back from daylight saving time, deer-vehicle collisions reach their annual peak. When we “fall back,” we create one more hour of high-danger driving. That afternoon hour of increased darkness results in more cars on the road when more wildlife roam. Stay safe by slowing down at dawn and dusk, using high beams when there’s no oncoming traffic, and always staying alert to movement along the side of the road.

When wildlife and vehicles collide, nobody wins. We can save lives and reduce roadside accidents year round by building more wildlife crossings across the country. Wildlife Crossings Save Lives. https://environmentamerica.org/articles/watch-out-for-animals-on-the-road/

10/30/2025

🚦 PSA REGARDING THE PROTECTED CROSSWALK – ORO DAM BLVD (SR-162) / SPENCER AVE 🚶‍♀️🚗

If you’ve driven through the intersection of Oro Dam Boulevard (SR-162) and Spencer Avenue, you may have come across the protected pedestrian crosswalk recently.

You may have asked yourself what do I do when it starts flashing red rather than being solid… well here’s some info.

The City of Oroville and CalTrans added this crosswalk to increase pedestrian safety, especially given the cresting hill in the area that can limit visibility for approaching motorists.

Here’s what those red lights mean at this type of crossing:

🔴 Solid Red Light:
All vehicles must stop and remain stopped until the lights change to flashing red.

🚨 Flashing Red Light:
Vehicles must stop, but may proceed only when it’s safe to do so — for example:

• ❌ If a pedestrian is still in the crosswalk → Do not proceed.
• ✅ If the crosswalk is clear and it’s safe → You may continue after stopping.

These rules help ensure the safety of both drivers and pedestrians alike.

📘 Reference – California Vehicle Code (CVC):
• §21453(a) – Drivers Must Stop at a Steady Circular Red Signal
• §21457(a) – Flashing Red Signal; Stop, Then Proceed When Safe
• §21950(a) – Drivers Must Yield to Pedestrians in Crosswalks

Let’s all do our part to keep Oroville’s roads safe — stop, look, and proceed with care! 👮‍♂️



, CHP - Oroville, Oroville Police Department, Butte County Sheriff, CAL FIRE/Butte County, Caltrans District 3, City of Oroville, ButteCountyEMS

10/26/2025

Daylight Saving Time ends in just one week! Are you ready to "fall back" in the early hours on Sunday, November 2? 👀

The general idea is that this allows us all to use natural daylight better: moving clocks back 1 hour in the fall grants us more daylight during winter mornings. In the autumn, we set our clocks back one hour until Daylight Saving Time again in March.

Not everyone is a fan of this practice, though! In the U.S., exceptions to DST are Arizona (except for the Navajo Nation), Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.

Learn more about where Daylight Saving Time originated, and why we still largely practice it today. Almanac.com/DST