Sims2: The Ziglar Homestead

Zoe Ziglar was the first settler of Strangetown.  She built a small two-room shack on a piece of land that looked as fertile as she was going to get in that particular piece of desert.  She was the first to cultivate the soil for vegetables.  As she and her partner Addison grew their garden and their family, they started selling the extra produce and adding onto the house.  It has grown in a ramshackle way with whatever building materials could be scrounged, heading towards the greenhouse, then around a central courtyard, which eventually was also enclosed for extra living space.  The rambling house has sheltered six generations of the family over time, with Zoe's three-times-great-grandchildren Queenie and Bryon the youngest living descendants still in the same house.

The name 'Ziglar' is still the most common in Strangetown; Zoe and Addison had five children, who between them produced 20 grand-children, most of whom had large families in turn.  There are 19 households with that last name, and although Zoe's descendants are proud of their antecedents, they now commonly take their spouse's last name just to create a little less confusion in the town. 

As well as doing 'farm gate' sales from the house, one of Zoe's children built a produce store once the town was a bit more established.  An enterprising descendant also enthusiastically started a rug store, which the current generation has quietly shuttered - but the inventory still lays around the lot.

Bryn and her daughter Queenie weed the growing plants in the greenhouse.

This was the first house I played in this challenge, and I'm still surprised that it managed to do so well despite very little planning.  Six generations - wow!  It's a minimum of 30 Sim days to reach adulthood, so I've played (at the very least, and probably a lot more) 120 Sim days, which is more than 30 rounds.  I'll probably finish the current round tomorrow, which will be exactly 28 real-life days since I started it.  I only kept track of the first 20 rounds or so, when I realized it wasn't information that was useful to track for the challenge.  It that seems like I must spend a lot of time playing this game... well, you're not wrong.