I am not a morning person either. But I seriously considered buying a big house -- or even better, an old hacienda -- in Northern New Mexico, up around Taos probably, and turning it into a Bed-and-Brunch.

There are quite a few traditional B&B's in that part of the state. (I've stayed at some very nice ones. (And my then-husband said the food at one in particular was marvelous. ) I don't do breakfast. I don't get up early -- and I'm not hungry for about four hours after that. (Pretty much on the dot.)

So the usual B&B was out of the question unless I could have hired staff to manage it -- and I didn't trust that idea. But the notion of a Bed-and-Brunch was intriguing ... 'cause you and I aren't the only ones who feel that way about life-around-sunrise.